Park Hoon-jung

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In this Korean name, the family name is Park.
Park Hoon-jung
File:Park Hoon-jung 2017.jpg
Park Hoon-jung 2017
Native name 박훈정
Born 1975
South Korea
Occupation
Years active 2010–present
Employer Gold Moon
Notable work New World (2013 film)
Spouse(s) married, unknown
Children 1
Korean name
Hangul 박훈정
Hanja 朴勳正
Revised Romanization Bak Hun-jeong
McCune–Reischauer Pak Hunjŏng

Park Hoon-jung (Hangul: 박훈정; hanja: 朴勳正) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Park first attracted notice within the Korean film industry for writing the screenplays for Kim Jee-woon's I Saw the Devil (2010) and Ryoo Seung-wan's The Unjust (2010).[1] He made his debut as a director in 2011 with the period film The Showdown. With his second film, gangster epic New World (2013), Park scored a critical and commercial success.[2][3][4][5]

Early career

Park was born in 1975. Since late 1980s, in his teen, he was already a Cinephilia.[6] In 1991, when he was in his second year of high school, he set a future goal to be a film director.[7] However, He enrolled to natural science department in college. After repeating his first college year twice, he enlisted to mandatory military service.[7] He then applied for a noncommissioned officer and was discharged as a sergeant five years later. After five years of military leave, he naturally dropped out of college.[8]

At the time of his discharge, he participated in a game scenario contest held by the Venture Association, which was when he was elected and joined a game company as a special recruit, working with game scenario. However, the company changed its business course to something else. Park then started another game company with the people he worked with, but the business didn’t go well. In the meantime, he won synopsis contest hosted by Sidus HQ, which was opened doors for Park to the film industry.[8]

Career

Debut as scriptwriter

Park made his breakthrough as a screenwriter for writing the screenplays for Kim Jee-woon's film I Saw the Devil (2010) and Ryoo Seung-wan's film The Unjust (2010). The two films released in 2010, imprinted the name of 'Park Hoon-jung' in Chungmuro.[9]

After I Saw the Devil premiered in South Korea on August 12, 2010, it was screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on 21 January 2011.[9][10] It also were screened at several other international film festivals, including the Fantasporto Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, San Sebastian Film Festival and the London Korean Film Festival. The film received mostly favorable review from international movie critics.[9]

The Unjust has screened at numerous film festivals around the world, including the Panorama section of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival,[11] the Hong Kong International Film Festival,[12] the Shanghai International Film Festival,[13] the New York Asian Film Festival,[14] the Fantasia Festival,[15] the Hawaii International Film Festival,[16] the Vladivostok International Film Festival - Pacific Meridian,[17] the Sitges Film Festival,[18] the London Korean Film Festival,[19] and the Udine Far East Film Festival.[20] Park won many awards from his screenplay for The Unjust (2010).

Career as director

Park made his directorial debut with film The Showdown which was released in 2011. He already wrote the script back in 2006, and offered the script to other production companies and directors. However they all wanted to tell a different story while keeping only the basic framework. Park felt like it was too far from his vision, so he thought of directing the film himself.[8]

He has been praised for pioneering a new path for Korean-style noir with 'Shinsegae' or New World, which was released in 2013, was a box office success (accumulated audience of 4.68 million, based on the results of the integrated computer network of the Korea Film Commission).[8]

His subsequent works The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale and V.I.P. were disappointing in terms of box office success. In particular, V.I.P., which was released in 2017, portrayed excessive violence against women.[21]

In 2016 he founded a film production company, 'Geumwol'. The name of the production company is derived from the Chinese characters for the criminal organization 'Goldmoon' in the movie New World. Park said, “There are many well-known works, but not many successful works,” said that he set up the company “to do the work he wanted to make” and “to not feel sorry for the production company when it didn’t do well.”[22]

In 2018, Park wrote and direct is a 2018 South Korean science fictionaction horror film The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion. [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] A sequel, The Witch: Part 2. The Other One, was released on 15 June 2022.[31]

Park wrote and directed Night in Paradise (2020 film), starring Uhm Tae-goo, Jeon Yeo-been and Cha Seung-won. It had its world premiere on September 3, 2020, at the 77th Venice International Film Festival and was released on April 9, 2021 on Netflix.[32][33]

Filmography

Year Title Credited as Ref.
English Korean Director Producer Screenplay
2010 I Saw the Devil 악마를 보았다 No No Yes [10]
The Unjust 부당거래 No No Yes [1]
2011 The Showdown 혈투 Yes No Yes [8]
2013 New World 신세계 Yes No Yes [7]
2015 The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale 대호 Yes No Yes [21]
2017 V.I.P. 브이아이피 Yes No Yes [21]
2018 The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion 마녀 Yes Yes Yes [27]
2020 Night in Paradise 낙원의 밤 Yes Yes Yes [33]
2022 The Witch: Part 2. The Other One 마녀 2: the other one Yes Yes Yes [31]
TBA The Childe 슬픈 열대 Yes Yes Yes [34]
TBA Tyrant 폭군 Yes Yes Yes [35]

Recurring Cast

Park frequently re-casts actors whom he has worked with on previous films.

Actor I Saw the Devil
(2010)		 The Unjust
(2010)		 The Showdown
(2011)		 New World
(2013)		 The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale
(2015)		 V.I.P.
(2017)		 The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion
(2018)		 Night in Paradise
(2020)		 The Witch: Part 2. The Other One
(2022)		 Sad Tropics
(TBA)		 Tyrant
(TBA)
Cha Seung-won NoN NoN
Choi Min-shik NoN NoN NoN
Joo Min-su NoN NoN
Kim Da-mi NoN NoN
Kim Kang-woo NoN NoN
Kim Seon-ho NoN NoN
Lee Jong-suk NoN NoN
Lee Ki-young NoN NoN NoN
Park Hee-soon NoN NoN NoN
Uhm Tae-goo NoN NoN

Awards and nominations

Year presented, name of the award ceremony, category, nominated work, and the result of the nomination
Year Award Category Nominated Work Result Ref
2011 15th Fantasia International Film Festival Best Screenplay The Unjust Won [36]
5th Asian Film Awards Nominated [37]
47th Baeksang Arts Awards Nominated
48th Grand Bell Awards Nominated
32nd Blue Dragon Film Awards Won [38]
2013 49th Baeksang Arts Awards New World Nominated [39]
Best New Director Nominated [40]
22nd Buil Film Awards Nominated
50th Grand Bell Awards Best Screenplay Nominated
Best Director Nominated
34th Blue Dragon Film Awards Nominated
2016 36th Korea Gold Awards Festival The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale Won
Golden Cinematography Awards Won [41]
53rd Grand Bell Awards Best Screenplay Nominated
2017 Fantastic Fest 2017 Best Director - Thriller Features V.I.P Won [42]
2019 39th Fantasporto Film Festival Best Film Orient Express The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion Won [43]
26th Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival Syfy Jury Prize Won [44]
2021 42nd Blue Dragon Film Awards Best Director Night in Paradise Nominated [45]
2022 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival Golden Raven The Witch: Part 2. The Other One Nominated [46]

References

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