Jang Jin

Directing

Jang Jin

Born

1971-02-24 (55)

Place of birth

Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Directing

Credits

54 titles

Known for

Radio Star poster
5.5

“Radio Star” is a South Korean music talk show where the guests and hosts talk openly and intimately about their lives, their pasts and their work. It is part of Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation's "Golden Fishery" programming block.

Radio Star

2007

SNL Korea poster
8.2

Korea's version of the late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory cast members.

SNL Korea

2011

Abnormal Summit poster
8.3

Led by a trio of Korean celebrities, a multinational panel of men engage in mostly lighthearted debates on issues that affect Korea and beyond.

Abnormal Summit

2014

Crime Scene poster
8.1

A mystery game show in which six celebrity players become suspects in a murder case and they have to prove themselves innocent while at the same time try to solve the mystery of who killed the victim among them like the game 'Clue'.

Crime Scene

2014

Here for Promo poster
NR

A Netflix Korea web variety show where stars from upcoming Netflix releases appear for relaxed interviews, games, and promotion. Its first season, "Not Here for Promo", featured hosts Lee Chang-ho and Lee Byung-gun in a casual, slightly messy apartment setting, jokingly pretending the guests had simply dropped by as friends rather than to promote a show. The program later became "Here for Promo", hosted by Yoo Byung-jae and Jonathan, with a cleaner setup and a more direct focus on discussing, promoting, and playing games related to the guests’ new Netflix titles.

Here for Promo

2024

Crime Scene Zero poster
9.3

In this mystery showdown, players engage in layered scenarios as either suspects or detectives — each striving to outsmart others and uncover the truth.

Crime Scene Zero

2025

Film credits

Series credits

Radio Star poster
5.5

“Radio Star” is a South Korean music talk show where the guests and hosts talk openly and intimately about their lives, their pasts and their work. It is part of Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation's "Golden Fishery" programming block.

Radio Star

2007

SNL Korea poster
8.2

Korea's version of the late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory cast members.

SNL Korea

2011

Abnormal Summit poster
8.3

Led by a trio of Korean celebrities, a multinational panel of men engage in mostly lighthearted debates on issues that affect Korea and beyond.

Abnormal Summit

2014

Crime Scene poster
8.1

A mystery game show in which six celebrity players become suspects in a murder case and they have to prove themselves innocent while at the same time try to solve the mystery of who killed the victim among them like the game 'Clue'.

Crime Scene

2014

Here for Promo poster
NR

A Netflix Korea web variety show where stars from upcoming Netflix releases appear for relaxed interviews, games, and promotion. Its first season, "Not Here for Promo", featured hosts Lee Chang-ho and Lee Byung-gun in a casual, slightly messy apartment setting, jokingly pretending the guests had simply dropped by as friends rather than to promote a show. The program later became "Here for Promo", hosted by Yoo Byung-jae and Jonathan, with a cleaner setup and a more direct focus on discussing, promoting, and playing games related to the guests’ new Netflix titles.

Here for Promo

2024

Crime Scene Zero poster
9.3

In this mystery showdown, players engage in layered scenarios as either suspects or detectives — each striving to outsmart others and uncover the truth.

Crime Scene Zero

2025

Jinfan Zone poster
NR

"JJinfan Zone" is a cheering station for the Jjinfan Fans who risk their lives playing ball. It is the first sports entertainment show where fans, not athletes, are the main characters. The first season features Hanwha Eagles fans as the main characters. Even though the Hanwha Eagles recorded their 18th consecutive loss and stayed in last place for 3 years in a row, they cheered them on with unchanging hearts. This year, Ryu Hyun Jin returns to the team to see if they can repeat their 1999 Korean Series victory and 2018 fall baseball miracle.

Jinfan Zone

2024

Black: I Saw the Devil poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Black: I Saw the Devil

2022

Korea's Got Talent poster
NR

Korea's Got Talent is a South Korean reality television show that was first broadcast on 4 June 2011 on tvN. The show is based on the Got Talent series format, originating with Britain's Got Talent. This is the show's first series in Korea. The judges are Kolleen Park, Jang Jin and Song Yun-ah. The show started accepting applicants on 9 February 2011 via ARS, the official website, and smart phone apps. The show held regional auditions nationwide starting in Busan on 2 April 2011. The show became famous around the world after a video of Sung-Bong Choi's appearance gained worldwide media attention. For prizes, the semi-finalists will have the opportunity to sign with Sony Music, and the winner will receive US$100,000.

Korea's Got Talent

2011

Behind the camera

Welcome to Dongmakgol poster
7.4

Based on the long running play by Jang Jin, the story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot, find themselves in a secluded and naively idealistic village, its residents unaware of the outside world, including the war.

Welcome to Dongmakgol

2005

Welcome to Dongmakgol poster
7.4

Based on the long running play by Jang Jin, the story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot, find themselves in a secluded and naively idealistic village, its residents unaware of the outside world, including the war.

Welcome to Dongmakgol

2005

Ditto poster
6.9

In this endearing supernatural love story spanning two decades, a university student finds himself communicating with a female classmate from the same school through an antique ham radio.

Ditto

2000

The Quiz Show Scandal poster
5.5

Due to a massive car accident and a twist of fate, passengers on four cars find out the answer to the final multimillion-dollar question in an upcoming episode of The Quiz Show. Everyone rushes to compete, their only challenge is to get to that final question.

The Quiz Show Scandal

2010

The Quiz Show Scandal poster
5.5

Due to a massive car accident and a twist of fate, passengers on four cars find out the answer to the final multimillion-dollar question in an upcoming episode of The Quiz Show. Everyone rushes to compete, their only challenge is to get to that final question.

The Quiz Show Scandal

2010

The Quiz Show Scandal poster
5.5

Due to a massive car accident and a twist of fate, passengers on four cars find out the answer to the final multimillion-dollar question in an upcoming episode of The Quiz Show. Everyone rushes to compete, their only challenge is to get to that final question.

The Quiz Show Scandal

2010

Someone Special poster
6.7

A baseball player learns he has three months to live and drowns his sorrows at a bar, where the female bartender turns out to be a longtime admirer.

Someone Special

2004

Someone Special poster
6.7

A baseball player learns he has three months to live and drowns his sorrows at a bar, where the female bartender turns out to be a longtime admirer.

Someone Special

2004

Someone Special poster
6.7

A baseball player learns he has three months to live and drowns his sorrows at a bar, where the female bartender turns out to be a longtime admirer.

Someone Special

2004

The Happenings poster
6.7

Upon getting out of prison, Deok-Bae meets his old buddy Dal-soo, who owns a restaurant. These two have never succeeded in life, and are constantly in and out of prison. Two others who happen to be in the same boat as Deok-Bae and Dal-Soo are ex-convicts. They have threatened to commit suicide unless traffic and unemployment issues are resolved. They are also unlucky enough to have been spotted at the scene of a crime. While these four are making big plans for their first success, the city becomes wrapped up in a serial murder case. In the meantime, an investigating team of veteran cops is formed in order to solve this case.

The Happenings

1998

The Happenings poster
6.7

Upon getting out of prison, Deok-Bae meets his old buddy Dal-soo, who owns a restaurant. These two have never succeeded in life, and are constantly in and out of prison. Two others who happen to be in the same boat as Deok-Bae and Dal-Soo are ex-convicts. They have threatened to commit suicide unless traffic and unemployment issues are resolved. They are also unlucky enough to have been spotted at the scene of a crime. While these four are making big plans for their first success, the city becomes wrapped up in a serial murder case. In the meantime, an investigating team of veteran cops is formed in order to solve this case.

The Happenings

1998

Going by the Book poster
7.4

The chief of Sampo City Police Office, Seung-u, organizes a simulation of a bank robbery, but a by-the-book cop gets too caught up in the role playing in which the simulation doesn't go the way he had anticipated.

Going by the Book

2007

Guns & Talks poster
6.6

Four unlikely assassins question their assignments because they genuinely care about their customers and victims. However, they attract police attention and a prosecutor is on their trail.

Guns & Talks

2001

Guns & Talks poster
6.6

Four unlikely assassins question their assignments because they genuinely care about their customers and victims. However, they attract police attention and a prosecutor is on their trail.

Guns & Talks

2001

The Spy poster
6.2

A North Korean spy Lee Chul-jin infiltrates the eastern coast of South Korea. His mission is to steal a Super Pig DNA sample which can be used to alleviate the famine in North Korea.

The Spy

1999

The Spy poster
6.2

A North Korean spy Lee Chul-jin infiltrates the eastern coast of South Korea. His mission is to steal a Super Pig DNA sample which can be used to alleviate the famine in North Korea.

The Spy

1999

Romantic Heaven poster
6.0

The paths of three people intersect at a hospital. A lawyer who mourns the death of his wife, a taxi driver who is taking care of his grandfather that suffers from Alzheimer's, and a girl who is looking for a bone marrow donor to save the life her mother.

Romantic Heaven

2011

Romantic Heaven poster
6.0

The paths of three people intersect at a hospital. A lawyer who mourns the death of his wife, a taxi driver who is taking care of his grandfather that suffers from Alzheimer's, and a girl who is looking for a bone marrow donor to save the life her mother.

Romantic Heaven

2011

Man on High Heels poster
6.9

Ji-wook is a virile detective with a reputation, but deep down in his heart, he always considered himself as a woman and finally decides to get a transsexual operation. However, his plan falls apart as vicious gang members start their revenge on him.

Man on High Heels

2014

Man on High Heels poster
6.9

Ji-wook is a virile detective with a reputation, but deep down in his heart, he always considered himself as a woman and finally decides to get a transsexual operation. However, his plan falls apart as vicious gang members start their revenge on him.

Man on High Heels

2014

Man on High Heels poster
6.9

Ji-wook is a virile detective with a reputation, but deep down in his heart, he always considered himself as a woman and finally decides to get a transsexual operation. However, his plan falls apart as vicious gang members start their revenge on him.

Man on High Heels

2014

A Hot Roof poster
7.1

A Korean film about a group of women who end up barricaded on the roof of their apartment building in the middle of a heat wave.

A Hot Roof

1995

We Are Brothers poster
6.6

Two brothers were separated in childhood at an orphanage, only to find each other as adults 30 years later. But right after their reunion, their birth mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, suddenly disappears. So Sang-yeon and Ha-yeon team up together and go on a road trip to search for her.

We Are Brothers

2014

We Are Brothers poster
6.6

Two brothers were separated in childhood at an orphanage, only to find each other as adults 30 years later. But right after their reunion, their birth mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, suddenly disappears. So Sang-yeon and Ha-yeon team up together and go on a road trip to search for her.

We Are Brothers

2014

Murder, Take One poster
6.5

A woman is killed in a hotel room. The ensuing police investigation is conducted in front of TV cameras for the entire country to watch as it unfolds.

Murder, Take One

2005

Murder, Take One poster
6.5

A woman is killed in a hotel room. The ensuing police investigation is conducted in front of TV cameras for the entire country to watch as it unfolds.

Murder, Take One

2005

Good Morning President poster
6.2

Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator of foreign policy and with great determination, and a female President Han Kyuong-ja. They are distressed over the choices they have to make between politics and ethics. The affliction of Kim Jung-ho who wins the lottery, the agony of Cha Ji-wook who donates an organ, and the troubles of Han Kyuong-ja who faces the crisis of divorce.

Good Morning President

2009

Good Morning President poster
6.2

Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator of foreign policy and with great determination, and a female President Han Kyuong-ja. They are distressed over the choices they have to make between politics and ethics. The affliction of Kim Jung-ho who wins the lottery, the agony of Cha Ji-wook who donates an organ, and the troubles of Han Kyuong-ja who faces the crisis of divorce.

Good Morning President

2009

Public Enemy Returns poster
6.6

Kang Chul-jung has been a detective fighting crime for 15 years and is at it again against a mob boss who recruits young kids to do his dirty work.

Public Enemy Returns

2008

Righteous Ties poster
6.4

After learning his boss betrayed him, a mob lackey plans to break out of prison and take revenge.

Righteous Ties

2006

Righteous Ties poster
6.4

After learning his boss betrayed him, a mob lackey plans to break out of prison and take revenge.

Righteous Ties

2006

The Recipe poster
6.6

A man on death-row wants to taste "doenjang jjigae" (a spicy Korean bean paste stew) before he dies. Television producer Choi Yu-Jin hears of the inmate and researches his story for an upcoming news report. Choi Yu-Jin then comes across a mysterious woman named Jang Hye-Jin who makes doenjang jjigae that brings tears of joy to those who tastes her recipe. As Choi Yu-Jin delves further, he learns of Jang Hye-Jin's heart breaking relationship with Kim Hyun-Soo.

The Recipe

2010

My Son poster
6.6

Lee Gang-sik sits in jail with a life sentence because of murder. His good behavior the last 15 years earns him the opportunity to be released for one day & visit his family. But how will his son, whom he let down for 15 years, react?

My Son

2007

My Son poster
6.6

Lee Gang-sik sits in jail with a life sentence because of murder. His good behavior the last 15 years earns him the opportunity to be released for one day & visit his family. But how will his son, whom he let down for 15 years, react?

My Son

2007

A Greatest Day poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Greatest Day

2000

A Greatest Day poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Greatest Day

2000

U-Turn poster
5.0

Ji Sub is coming back home after an unsuccessful audition. Suddenly, a sound makes him stop his car. When he opens his trunk, he discovers a young woman, Yeon Hee, who doesn't remember anything about herself. Who is that girl and why did she appear in front of Ji Sub?

U-Turn

2008

U-Turn poster
5.0

Ji Sub is coming back home after an unsuccessful audition. Suddenly, a sound makes him stop his car. When he opens his trunk, he discovers a young woman, Yeon Hee, who doesn't remember anything about herself. Who is that girl and why did she appear in front of Ji Sub?

U-Turn

2008

A Letter From Mars poster
5.7

Little Seung-jae stays up all night and writes letters to So-hee, pretending to be her father in Mars. Leaving Seung-jae's innocent heart behind, So-hee leaves for a big city. Both grown up to be adults, Seung-jae is a postman who writes letters to So-hee's grandma - the letters that never came from So-hee. So-hee's heart hardens after hardships in life and she comes back to her hometown and Seung-jae's heart swells up again at seeing her again...

A Letter From Mars

2003

If You Were Me 2 poster
5.0

Commissioned by South Korea's National Human Rights Commission, If You Were Me is an innovative omnibus film project to promote tolerance and human rights and shed light on the hardships disadvantaged people face in Korea. After the success of the first anthology, a second series, If You Were Me 2, was released this year. Five notable Korean directors - Park Kyung Hee (A Smile), Ryoo Seung Wan (Crying Fist), Jung Ji Woo, Jang Jin (Guns & Talks), and Kim Dong Won - participated in the second installment, creating shorts on human rights issues of their choosing.

If You Were Me 2

2006