| Heo Jin-ho | |||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 8 August 1963 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Jeonju, South Korea | ||||||||||
| Occupation: | Film director, screenwriter | ||||||||||
| Education: | Yonsei University - Philosophy Korean Academy of Film Arts - Filmmaking | ||||||||||
| Agent: | C-JeS Entertainment[1] (2020-present) | ||||||||||
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Hur Jin-ho (; born August 8, 1963) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.
Hur graduated from Yonsei University with a degree in philosophy and went on to study filmmaking at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. His first steps as a film director did not go unnoticed as his first short, For Go-chul, was selected for the Vancouver International Film Festival. He later co-wrote the script of A Single Spark and Kilimanjaro. Many of his feature films, Christmas in August (shown at the Critics' Week in Cannes in 1998), One Fine Spring Day (2001), April Snow (2005), Happiness (2007) and A Good Rain Knows (2009) are variations on Hur's favorite theme: love.[2] Film critic Kim Ji-mi says in Korean Film Observatory magazine (No. 23), Hur "shows the outstanding talent of being able to grasp the sensitive moments of the beginning and ending of a love between a man and a woman" (p. 22).[3]
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | |||||
| 1993 | To the Starry Island | ||||||
| 1995 | A Single Spark | ||||||
| 1998 | Christmas in August | ||||||
| 1999 | City of the Rising Sun | Bit part | |||||
| 2000 | Kilimanjaro | ||||||
| 2001 | One Fine Spring Day | ||||||
| 2005 | April Snow | ||||||
| 2007 | Happiness | ||||||
| 2009 | A Good Rain Knows | Korean-Chinese co-production | |||||
| 2012 | Dangerous Liaisons | Chinese film | |||||
| 2016 | The Last Princess | [4] | |||||
| 2019 | Forbidden Dream | [5] | |||||
| 2024 | A Normal Family | [6] | |||||
| Title | Credited as | Notes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | |||||
| 1993 | For Go-chul | ||||||
| 2003 | Alone Together | from omnibus Twentidentity | |||||
| 2004 | My New Boyfriend | ||||||
| 2009 | I'm Right Here | from omnibus Five Senses of Eros | |||||
| 2019 | The Present | [7] | |||||
| Year | Title | Credited as | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | |||
| 2021 | Lost | |||
| 2024 | Love in the Big City | |||
| Year | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago International Film Festival | 2005 | Best Feature | April Snow | ||
| San Sebastián International Film Festival | Golden Seashell | ||||
| 28th Blue Dragon Film Awards | 2007 | Best Film | Happiness | [9] | |
| Best Screenplay | |||||
| Best Director | |||||
| 2007 Korean Association of Film Critics Awards | 2007 | Best Screenplay | |||
| 2007 Korean Film Awards | 2007 | Best Film | |||
| Best Director | |||||
| 44th Baeksang Arts Awards | 2008 | Best Film | |||
| 17th Buil Film Awards | 2008 | Best Director | |||
| 45th Grand Bell Awards | 2008 | Best Film | |||
| Best Director | |||||
| Best Screenplay | |||||
| Grand Bell Awards | 2016 | Best Film | The Last Princess | [10] | |
| Best Director |