Jung Ji-woo

Directing

Jung Ji-woo

Born 1968-05-07 · South Korea

Jung Ji-woo (also spelled as Chung Ji-woo; born May 7, 1968) is a South Korean film director. He is best known for his films Happy End (1999) and Eungyo (2012).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Eungyo poster
6.7

A reclusive elderly poet feels the fire of his youth when gamine schoolgirl Eun-gyo enters his life, to the chagrin of the old man's assistant.

Eungyo

2012

Eungyo poster
6.7

A reclusive elderly poet feels the fire of his youth when gamine schoolgirl Eun-gyo enters his life, to the chagrin of the old man's assistant.

Eungyo

2012

Eungyo poster
6.7

A reclusive elderly poet feels the fire of his youth when gamine schoolgirl Eun-gyo enters his life, to the chagrin of the old man's assistant.

Eungyo

2012

Happy End poster
6.6

When a wife becomes the breadwinner of her family after her husband loses his job, adultery becomes part of her life.

Happy End

1999

Happy End poster
6.6

When a wife becomes the breadwinner of her family after her husband loses his job, adultery becomes part of her life.

Happy End

1999

Tune in for Love poster
7.7

During the 1990s, hardworking Mi-soo and optimistic Hyun-woo meet at a bakery and fall in love while exchanging stories on a radio station, but while their paths keep crossing, the timing never seems to work out.

Tune in for Love

2019

Moss poster
6.9

A city boy visits a remote village to find out the reason behind his father's strange death. The locals are watching his every move and are eager to see him leave. As he starts to investigate, the village's sinister secrets begin to unravel.

Moss

2010

Heart Blackened poster
6.9

A father goes all out to clear his daughter from any wrong doing in the murder of his fiancée. When all evidence points to her, he takes matters into to his own hands to save his daughter and outwit the judiciary system.

Heart Blackened

2017

Heart Blackened poster
6.9

A father goes all out to clear his daughter from any wrong doing in the murder of his fiancée. When all evidence points to her, he takes matters into to his own hands to save his daughter and outwit the judiciary system.

Heart Blackened

2017

Blossom Again poster
6.4

A 30-year-old teacher at a private school in Seoul falls in love with a teenage student in one of her night classes.

Blossom Again

2005

Blossom Again poster
6.4

A 30-year-old teacher at a private school in Seoul falls in love with a teenage student in one of her night classes.

Blossom Again

2005

Modern Boy poster
6.8

During the Japanese occupation, a Korean modern boy, who wants to fit in with the Japanese, falls in love with a Korean freedom fighter.

Modern Boy

2008

Modern Boy poster
6.8

During the Japanese occupation, a Korean modern boy, who wants to fit in with the Japanese, falls in love with a Korean freedom fighter.

Modern Boy

2008

Fourth Place poster
7.0

A former Asian Games record breaker and Olympic tryout, Kim Gwang-su, endures beatings, abuse, and constant ridicule from his swimming coach. To justify this abusive behavior, his coach constantly reminded Gwang-su - this is for your own good.

Fourth Place

2016

Fourth Place poster
7.0

A former Asian Games record breaker and Olympic tryout, Kim Gwang-su, endures beatings, abuse, and constant ridicule from his swimming coach. To justify this abusive behavior, his coach constantly reminded Gwang-su - this is for your own good.

Fourth Place

2016

Fourth Place poster
7.0

A former Asian Games record breaker and Olympic tryout, Kim Gwang-su, endures beatings, abuse, and constant ridicule from his swimming coach. To justify this abusive behavior, his coach constantly reminded Gwang-su - this is for your own good.

Fourth Place

2016

A Bit Bitter poster
NR

A woman leads a tiresome life trying to make ends meet, doing housework, and bring up her children. She tries her best to save money but she feels something is missing inside of her. She cannot communicate with her husband who brings his friends home at night to drink; they all seem to be speaking in incomprehensible gibberish

A Bit Bitter

1996

A Bit Bitter poster
NR

A woman leads a tiresome life trying to make ends meet, doing housework, and bring up her children. She tries her best to save money but she feels something is missing inside of her. She cannot communicate with her husband who brings his friends home at night to drink; they all seem to be speaking in incomprehensible gibberish

A Bit Bitter

1996

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

A boy with the Knapsack poster
NR

19-year-old Hyun-iee and Jin-sun got to take refuge from North Korea. Jin-sun is always troubled with her classmates and an owner of her part-time work place cheated her. She’s all alone at home. Her silence is made out of lack of communication with the world, which makes people think she’s deaf. Hyun-iee misses his hometown so much and buys a lot of gifts for his parents and stuff them in his knapsack just like his routine.

A boy with the Knapsack

2006

정지우x김무열x조은지 Project: Personal Movie poster
NR

A man trains for a fight on a rooftop.

정지우x김무열x조은지 Project: Personal Movie

2014

Cliffy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cliffy

1994