After watching Back to the Future on its opening day at the Daehan Theater, 16-year-old Ahn was inspired to pursue a career as a film director.
The action noir scenario, which took nearly three years to complete, was brought to the production stage by recruiting famous actors around 2011, but failed to receive investment.
The anxiety that he would never be able to work in movies again if his debut film went wrong became the driving force that made him pour all his effort into it.
[1][5] At the end of 2022, when the slump in Korean films was severe, the number of viewers reached 3.32 million, ranking 8th in the annual box office in 2022.
Among the works released at the same time, The Night Owl is the only Korean film to exceed 1 million viewers.
[6] In particular, the moment when his debut feature film, The Night Owl, which he released 17 years after rewriting numerous scripts after working as an assistant director for the 2005 film 'The King and the Clown', was named the winner of the Best Picture award at the Baeksang Arts Awards, was a moment that gave hope to all filmmakers and aspiring filmmakers.