Jang Hyun-sung

Jang Hyun-sung

1970-07-17 Geoje, South Gyeongsang, South Korea 34 Credits

Biography

Jang Hyun-sung is a South Korean actor. He started his acting career as a member of the Hakjeon Theatre Company, before transitioning to film and television. Jang is best known for starring in director Song Il-gon's arthouse films such as Spider Forest and The Magicians, and most notably Feathers in the Wind, for which one review praised him for giving "the performance of his career." He also had major roles in Nabi, Rewind, My Right to Ravage Myself, Love Is a Crazy Thing, and My Friend and His...

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The Killers

The Killers

2024

as Hyun-sang (segment "Everyone Is Waiting For The Man")

5.8
Acting

Four master helmers from Korea reload the hitman flick. Vampire sleaze, assassin slapstick, neo-noir, and an avant-garde mind-bender to die (kill) for...

Kim Dae Jung Must Not Die

Kim Dae Jung Must Not Die

2024

as Narrator / Kim Dae-jung (voice)

8.2
Acting

Kim Dae Jung, who stands next to people in the middle of caotic history! A young businessman Kim Dae Jung recognized the victims of ideology. He decid...

Single in Seoul

Single in Seoul

2023

as Jin-pyo

6.2
Acting

A writer who praises living a life of single teams up with an editor who is desperate about finding her better half. Would it be possible for the two ...

Rebound

Rebound

2023

as Yongsan High School Coach

7.3
Acting

This true story retells the incredible tale of the 2012 National High School Basketball Championship, in which a new coach and six players from the we...

Kill Boksoon

Kill Boksoon

2023

as Bok-soon's Father

6.8
Acting

At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.

Last Film

Last Film

2022

5.5
Acting

Park Sang-min, who teaches film at the University's Department of Film, is a film director who is under pressure of debt and trouble for the subject o...

My Son

My Son

2022

as Min-seok

5.0
Acting

Normal is relative. A father, taking care of the 19-year-old handicapped son who declares his independence. He can´t take nor turn down his son who wa...

The Swordsman

The Swordsman

2020

as Monarch

7.5
Acting

After being blinded in a coup against the king, Joseon's greatest swordsman goes into hiding, far removed from his city's anguish. But when trafficker...

Steel Rain

Steel Rain

2017

as Jeong Se-yeong

7.1
Acting

Amid a coup, a North Korean agent escapes south with the country's injured leader in an attempt to keep him alive and prevent a Korean war.

Curtain Call

Curtain Call

2016

as Kang Min-gi

6.8
Acting

As a B grade erotic theater group is about to close down, affected by the economic recession, they decide to perform a proper theater play for their l...

The Advocate: A Missing Body

The Advocate: A Missing Body

2015

as Moon Ji-hoon

7.2
Acting

When his client suddenly confesses to murder in open court, a hotshot attorney embarks on a search for truth to redeem his ruined reputation.

Love Never Fails

Love Never Fails

2015

as Sang-hyun

3.7
Acting

No pain, no gain. This is the motto of the Yoo family: the father is a successful doctor, the mother supervises their daughter's scholastic performanc...

C'est Si Bon

C'est Si Bon

2015

as Lee Jang-hee (40s)

7.0
Acting

A beautiful socialite enters the lives of three bickering musicians and inspires them to write a series of hit love-songs.

Hwayi: A Monster Boy

Hwayi: A Monster Boy

2013

as Jin-seong

7.4
Acting

After being kidnapped as a small child and raised by the five men who abducted him, a teenage boy is now forced to join their life in crime.

Dance of Time

Dance of Time

2009

6.0
Acting

A documentary about Korean Cubans, whose ancestors arrived 100 years ago.

My Friend & His Wife

My Friend & His Wife

2008

as Ye-joon

4.7
Acting

Two young men, Ye-joon and Jae-moon, have been close friends since doing military service together. Ye-joon has lately worked his way up to becoming a...

Femme Fatal

Femme Fatal

2007

as Detective

6.1
Acting

A gorgeous movie star invites four men to a party to choose her lover. However, they start being killed and the situation gets out of control. This co...

The Perfect Couple

The Perfect Couple

2007

as Kim Chi-Gon

5.6
Acting

While eating skewered tempura at a street vendor, young reporter Choi Soo-jin accidentally sticks the skewer into the side of a detective, Kang Jae-hy...

Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday

2006

as Moon Yu-chan

7.0
Acting

Yu-jeong is suicidal, yet she reluctantly goes to prison for volunteer work. There, she meets a prisoner who is waiting for death penalty. The two qui...

The Romance

The Romance

2006

5.5
Acting

Yoon-hee is so harassed by her husband's obsession and frantic love, that even breathing is painful to her. One day, her sudden suicide attempt is foi...

Love is a Crazy Thing

Love is a Crazy Thing

2005

as Min-su

4.9
Acting

Jeon Mi-sun stars as Au-jin, a bored housewife living in Busan. Her husband does very little to help raise their two children, So Au-jin works a numbe...

Princess Aurora

Princess Aurora

2005

as Kim Woo-taek

6.0
Acting

A woman gets killed in a department store. No one imagines this could lead to serial murders, but two days after the first murder, another homicide oc...

The Magicians

The Magicians

2005

as Myung-soo

5.6
Acting

Two long time friends who used to play in the band "The Magicians" are sitting and drinking in Jae-sung's own bar/café situated deep in the forest.

My Right to Ravage Myself

My Right to Ravage Myself

2005

as Sang-hyun

4.0
Acting

S is a suicide designer who assists people to commit suicide according to a method of their own choosing. When a woman kills herself, her boyfriend de...

Feathers in the Wind

Feathers in the Wind

2005

6.9
Acting

Hyeon-seong, a film director struggling with writing a new screenplay, visits a remote southern island he stayed 10 years ago to fulfill a promise he ...

Ghost House

Ghost House

2004

as Park Gi-tae

6.4
Acting

Park Pil-gi’s family has never owned a house for three generations. They have to live in a rented room all their lives. Quite understandably, his fath...

Springtime

Springtime

2004

as Kyung-soo

7.6
Acting

A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town.

Spider Forest

Spider Forest

2004

as Choi Seong-hyeon

6.7
Acting

TV Producer Kang Min enters Spider Forest for a documentary. He enters a cabin and discovers two brutally murdered bodies. One is his girlfriend Hwang...

Rewind

Rewind

2003

5.8
Acting

Han is a videostore owner who has been receiving anonymous lover letters. After finding a videotape that belongs to one of his customers, he uses it t...

Break Out

Break Out

2002

6.3
Acting

How far would you go to recover a cigarette lighter? A pulsing mix of hard-hitting action, wry social commentary, and black humor, director Jang Hang ...

The Butterfly

The Butterfly

2001

as K

6.2
Acting

In a near future Korea, where an "oblivion virus" which causes memory loss has become the centre of a tourist industry aimed at those who wish to forg...

Kiss Me Much

Kiss Me Much

2001

4.4
Acting

The life of a happy family is thrown into turmoil when they are given 30 days to pay back a relative's massive debt or lose everything.

Real Fiction

Real Fiction

2000

as Flower Shop Deliverer

5.4
Acting

A repressed artist receives ritual abuse from those who pass him as he paints portraits in the park. Gradually becoming more frustrated, anger builds ...

Shiri

Shiri

1999

as Special Investigation Team

6.5
Acting

North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the ...