He gained recognition through the blockbuster films The Priests (2015), Svaha: The Sixth Finger (2019) and Exhuma (2024).
[1] Jang served as an assistant director on the blockbuster period drama Masquerade (2012) before breaking out with the short 12th Assistant Deacon (2014) which won Best Film in The Extreme Nightmare section at the 13th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival, and Best Director Award (Korean Competition For Shorts) at the 15th Jeonju International Film Festival in 2014.
Based on the award-winning short, he made his first feature film The Priests (2015) - a supernatural mystery thriller, which was a hit with more than 5.4 million admissions.
Jang said "I got a weird feeling when I saw a priest waiting anxiously for someone on the other side of a fast food restaurant window.
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