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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Killers
2024
as Hyun-sang (segment "Everyone Is Waiting For The Man")
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
2024
as Narrator / Kim Dae-jung (voice)
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
2023
as Jin-pyo
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
2023
as Yongsan High School Coach
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
2023
as Bok-soon's Father
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
2022
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
2022
as Min-seok
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
2020
as Monarch
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
2017
as Jeong Se-yeong
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
2016
as Kang Min-gi
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
2015
as Moon Ji-hoon
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
2015
as Sang-hyun
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
2015
as Lee Jang-hee (40s)
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
2013
as Jin-seong
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
2009
A documentary about Korean Cubans, whose ancestors arrived 100 years ago.

My Friend & His Wife
2008
as Ye-joon
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
2007
as Detective
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
2007
as Kim Chi-Gon
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
2006
as Moon Yu-chan
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
2006
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
2005
as Min-su
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
2005
as Kim Woo-taek
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
2005
as Myung-soo
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
2005
as Sang-hyun
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
2005
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
2004
as Park Gi-tae
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
2004
as Kyung-soo
A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town.

Spider Forest
2004
as Choi Seong-hyeon
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
2003
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
2002
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
2001
as K
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
2001
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
2000
as Flower Shop Deliverer
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
1999
as Special Investigation Team
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 ...