Signals: Jang Jin
Overview of films
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Guns and Talks
Jang Jin’s classic comedy thriller about a group of four talkative, philosophical hitmen established his signature style and themes. It’s all about
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Romantic Heaven
If our everyday lives are hell on earth, what are our romantic dreams of righting wrongs when we get to heaven? Jang Jin’s multi-stranded story ask
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The Quiz Show Scandal
Jang Jin takes the temperature of present-day Korea in this sprawling ensemble comedy, in which everyone scrambles to win a lucrative TV-quiz prize
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Someone Grateful
Jang Jin’s most brilliant satire, made for Korea’s Human Rights Commission, rethinks one of the Left’s most sacred cows: the torture of student act
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A Hot Roof
Scripted by Jang Jin, this lacerating feminist drama was one of the films that launched Korea’s new wave in the mid-1990s. Ten women who have accid
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Man on High Heels
Jang Jin’s fetish actor Cha Seung-Won plays an ultra-macho cop with a deep secret: he wants a sex change. Meanwhile he’s caught between taking down
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Murder, Take One
In the near future, Jang Jin suggests, murder trials will be staged as TV shows. An Agatha Christie-like mystery surrounds the murder of a woman in
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The Recipe
Co-written and produced by Jang Jin, Lee’s second feature is a foodie’s delight. A cynical TV newsman searches for the unique recipe which turns an
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Welcome to Dongmakgol
A Korean Shangri-La, Dongmakgol is a mountain village that finds itself hosting stray soldiers from both sides in the Korean War, along with a woun
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We Are Brothers
Two brothers separated in childhood are brought together as adults – only to find that one is now a Christian pastor and the other a shaman.
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My Son
A life-term prisoner is granted a 24-hour parole to see his mother and meet the son he never knew: 24 hours in which he lives the 15 years he’s alr
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Righteous Ties
A surprisingly generic prison movie from Jang Jin, but laced with his usual humour and visual tricks. A gangster in jail realises that his boss has