Directors Archive / CHUNG JI-YOUNG

CHUNG JI-YOUNG

Name in korean:

정지영

Name pronunciation:

Jeong Ji-yeong

Date of Birth:

19 Novembre 1946

Gender:

Man

Biography

Chung Ji-young honed his directorial skills by working as an assistant director for Kin so-yong. After his debut film Mist Whispers Like Women (1982), he built his reputation on social criticism films and began working on screenplays based on true events: North Korean Partisan in South Korea (1989). Chung is also known for his activism in sociocultural issues such as campaigning against the direct distribution of foreign films and abolishing preemptive censorship. In 2011 he finished Unbowed, a film based on a true story in which the director criticizes the corruption of the national judicial system; with this work he won the award for best director at the Blue Dragon Film Awards and at the KOFRA Film Awards Ceremony.
Chung caused scandal again the following year with National Security, a ruthless look at the torture practiced by the Korean secret services in the eighties.

Critique

A political and rigorous film about the story of a man who, in order to rehabilitate his name, delves into the ruthless universe of high finance and its most hidden and shady secrets. Cho Jin-woong excels in a role, that of the gruff but fair attorney Yang Min-hyu / Bulldozer, which seems tailor-made for this new phase of his career in which he is increasingly at the center of the stories and increasingly oriented towards the characterization of characters, all in all positive, in which the public does not struggle to identify. An energetic man, accustomed to navigating the world, who finds himself face to face with the universe of financial capitalism and corruption. One of those characters who know how to distinguish what is right from what is not and who take the risk of fighting, even if alone, to live their lives without shadows and subterfuge. Lee Ha-nee is Kim Na-ri, a sophisticated lawyer who grew up in a privileged environment, who proves to be the perfect counterpart to Bulldozer, a boy who grew up on the street and became a prosecutor.

Filmography