Han Junhee - allkpop forums

I. Introduction

Han Jun-hee is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.

II. Career

Han Jun-hee kicked off his directing career with the short To Bite a Cigarette in 2005. It didn’t take him long to enter the mainstream industry as he became involved in the production support team for 2006’s LEE Byung-hun romance film Once a Summer. Quickly moving up the ranks he found himself in the assistant director position for 2008’s comedy Ba:Bo with Cha Tae-hyun and HA Ji-won.

His next major credit arose in 2013, when he debuted as a screenwriter on the supernatural procedural thriller The Gifted Hands. That same year he also worked in the production department for Jang Joon-hwan’s long-awaited return Hwayi: A Monster Boy.

At the age of 30, Han finally made his directorial debut on the gangster thriller Coin Locker Girl, which he also wrote. The female-led crime tale, which starred Kim Hye-soo and Kim Go-eun, proved an auspicious start as it was featured in the Critics’ Week lineup of the Cannes Film Festival. The film was a modest hit in Korea, garnering 1.47 million viewers, and traveled all around the world, screening at the Melbourne, Sitges and Giffoni Film Festivals, among others.

III. Filmography