Jang Hyun-sung

Acting

Jang Hyun-sung

Born 1970-07-17 · Geoje, South Gyeongsang, South Korea

Jang Hyun-sung is a South Korean actor. He started his acting career as a member of the Hakjeon Theatre Company, before transitioning to film and television. Jang is best known for starring in director Song Il-gon's arthouse films such as Spider Forest and The Magicians, and most notably Feathers in the Wind, for which one review praised him for giving "the performance of his career." He also had major roles in Nabi, Rewind, My Right to Ravage Myself, Love Is a Crazy Thing, and My Friend and His Wife. Aside from acting, Jang was one of the screenwriters for the Moon Seung-wook film Romance. In 2013, Jang and his two sons began appearing in the reality/variety show Superman is Back, in which celebrity fathers babysit their children by themselves for 48 hours after sending their wives on a 2-day vacation.

Acting credits

Humint poster
7.4

A South Korean agent hunts a drug ring in Russia and goes head-to-head with a North Korean operative — pulling both into peril and tangled secrets.

Humint

2026

The King's Warden poster
7.2

In a remote mountain village of 15th-century Joseon, humble headman Heung-do hears a rumor that any village hosting an exiled nobleman will be blessed with abundance and fortune. Hoping to bring prosperity to his impoverished community, he eagerly submits a petition to host one—unaware that his guest is none other than the fallen monarch, deposed boy-king Danjong.

The King's Warden

2026

The Swordsman poster
7.5

After being blinded in a coup against the king, Joseon's greatest swordsman goes into hiding, far removed from his city's anguish. But when traffickers kidnap his daughter, he has no choice but to unsheathe his sword once more.

The Swordsman

2020

C'est Si Bon poster
6.9

A beautiful socialite enters the lives of three bickering musicians and inspires them to write a series of hit love-songs.

C'est Si Bon

2015

Kill Boksoon poster
6.9

At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.

Kill Boksoon

2023

Shiri poster
6.4

North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries. Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.

Shiri

1999

Steel Rain poster
7.1

Amid a coup, a North Korean agent escapes south with the country's injured leader in an attempt to keep him alive and prevent a Korean war.

Steel Rain

2017

Hwayi: A Monster Boy poster
7.4

After being kidnapped as a small child and raised by the five men who abducted him, a teenage boy is now forced to join their life in crime.

Hwayi: A Monster Boy

2013

Single in Seoul poster
6.2

A writer who praises living a life of single teams up with an editor who is desperate about finding her better half. Would it be possible for the two of them to finish the book?

Single in Seoul

2023

The Advocate: A Missing Body poster
7.2

When his client suddenly confesses to murder in open court, a hotshot attorney embarks on a search for truth to redeem his ruined reputation.

The Advocate: A Missing Body

2015

My Friend & His Wife poster
4.7

Two young men, Ye-joon and Jae-moon, have been close friends since doing military service together. Ye-joon has lately worked his way up to becoming a successful financier, while the unambitious Jae-moon has opted for a much less conspicuous route. He now works as a cook and is enjoying family life with his wife Ji-sook and their new-born son. Ji-sook tolerates her husband’s attachment to his friend, but everything changes after the tragic death of the child, caused by Ye-joon. Ji-sook was in Paris when the tragedy occurred and isn’t aware of the circumstances; she even starts an affair with Ye-joon when her husband is imprisoned after taking the blame for his son’s death. Relationships which were originally crystal-clear begin to grow distinctly cloudy.

My Friend & His Wife

2008

The Killers poster
5.9

Four master helmers from Korea reload the hitman flick. Vampire sleaze, assassin slapstick, neo-noir, and an avant-garde mind-bender to die (kill) for!

The Killers

2024

Kiss Me Much poster
4.6

The life of a happy family is thrown into turmoil when they are given 30 days to pay back a relative's massive debt or lose everything.

Kiss Me Much

2001

Rebound poster
7.2

This true story retells the incredible tale of the 2012 National High School Basketball Championship, in which a new coach and six players from the weakest basketball team ran nonstop for eight days.

Rebound

2023

Real Fiction poster
5.5

A repressed artist receives ritual abuse from those who pass him as he paints portraits in the park. Gradually becoming more frustrated, anger builds up within the artist, leading him to embark upon a quest to gain revenge on all those who have humiliated him.

Real Fiction

2000

Princess Aurora poster
6.0

A woman gets killed in a department store. No one imagines this could lead to serial murders, but two days after the first murder, another homicide occurs. A woman is suffocated to death and the only evidence left at the crime scene is a sticker of the cartoon character “Princess Aurora”.

Princess Aurora

2005

Last Film poster
5.5

Park Sang-min, who teaches film at the University's Department of Film, is a film director who is under pressure of debt and trouble for the subject of the next film.

Last Film

2022

Spider Forest poster
6.6

TV Producer Kang Min enters Spider Forest for a documentary. He enters a cabin and discovers two brutally murdered bodies. One is his girlfriend Hwang Soo-Young and the other is his colleague Choi Jong-Pil. Kang Min also senses someone watching him and runs after that person into to the forest. He's soon knocked unconscious. When he awakens again he continues his chase into a tunnel. Kang Min is then struck by a speeding car.

Spider Forest

2004

Curtain Call poster
6.8

As a B grade erotic theater group is about to close down, affected by the economic recession, they decide to perform a proper theater play for their last show as they have always been dreaming of. Their choice of play is the classic theater play, 'Hamlet'. However, once the theater play has started running, their performance goes to an unexpected direction due to the mistakes and adlib they never thought were going to happen on the stage. Will their curtain call occur happily as they hoped in the beginning?

Curtain Call

2016

Maundy Thursday poster
7.0

Yu-jeong is suicidal, yet she reluctantly goes to prison for volunteer work. There, she meets a prisoner who is waiting for death penalty. The two quickly fall in love despite their differences, yet they do not have much time.

Maundy Thursday

2006

The Magicians poster
5.8

Two long time friends who used to play in the band "The Magicians" are sitting and drinking in Jae-sung's own bar/café situated deep in the forest.

The Magicians

2006

Romance poster
5.5

Yoon-hee is harassed by her husband's excessive obsession and crazy love so much that even breathing is painful. Her sudden suicide attempt fails when someone takes her in his arms and saves her.

Romance

2006

Never to Lose poster
6.7

“Never to Lose” concerns the men of Homicide Unit 3, who are in dire straits at the moment. While Unit 3’s cops are full of ambition and talent, they never seem to crack a case. The team is comprised of Detective Koh, a 15 year veteran, Detective Kim (Min-jun Kim), a rookie eager to make a name for himself, Detective Koh, a married man who spends more time on the job than with his wife, and Detective Ryung ( Sang-mi Nam ), who can’t get taken seriously by her peers because she’s a woman. While at a party with his girlfriend, Kim happens upon information about a drug deal that could get the team the respect they’ve been looking for. But what the team gets into turns out to be not just a big drug bust, but a case that makes Homicide Unit 3 the target of the largest drug lord in Korea .

Never to Lose

2005

Ghost House poster
6.3

The day that Pil-gi waited for so many years has finally come: hes getting his own house, the last wish of his deceased father. And what a perfect house it is! Big, beautiful, isolated, next to the ocean and at that price, Pil-gi couldn't have found a better place.

Ghost House

2004