Bang Eun-jin

Bang Eun-jin (born August 5, 1965) is a South Korean actress and film director. She is best known for starring in Park Chul-soo's 301, 302 and Kim Ki-duk's Address Unknown. Bang made her feature directorial debut with Princess Aurora in 2005,[1] and has since directed Perfect Number (2012),[2] and Way Back Home (2013).[3]

This is a Korean name; the family name is Bang.

Bang Eun-jin
Born	(1965-08-05) August 5, 1965 South Korea
Education	Kookmin University - Clothing Design Chung-Ang University - Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film
Occupation	Actress, film director, screenwriter
Years active	1993–present
Korean name
Hangul	방은진
Hanja	方銀珍
Revised Romanization	Bang Eun-jin
McCune–Reischauer	Pang Ŭn-chin

Filmography

Director and screenwriter

• Method (2017)
• Way Back Home (2013)
• Perfect Number (2012)
• Blue Birds on the Desk (short film from omnibus If You Were Me 4, 2008)[4]
• Puff the Rice (short film, 2007)[5]
• Princess Aurora (2005)
• Ain't No Maid (short film, 2004)[6]

Actress

Film

• The Naked Kitchen (2009) (cameo)
• A Light Sleep (2009) (cameo)
• Crush and Blush (2008)
• Bleach (2008)
• Nowhere to Turn (2008) (voice cameo)
• Tool (2006)
• Salt: Korean Railway Women Workers Story (2003)
• Rewind (2002)
• Road Movie (2002)
• My Beautiful Days (2002)
• No Comment (2002)
• Scent of Love (2001)
• Address Unknown (2001)
• Doomealee, The Very First Step (2000)
• Gui: A Space between Two Deaths (2000)
• Subrosa (2000)
• Black Hole (2000)
• The Uprising (1999)
• The Wooden Closet (1998)
• Rub Love (1998)
• Birdcage Inn (1998)
• Reclaiming Our Names (1998)
• Push! Push! (1997)
• Do You Believe in Jazz? (1997)
• Farewell My Darling (1997)
• Seven Reasons Why Beer is Better Than a Lover (1996)
• 301, 302 (1995)
• Mom, the Star and the Sea Anemone (1994)
• The Taebaek Mountains (1994)

Television series

• My Too Perfect Sons (KBS2, 2009)
• Foolish Love (KBS2, 2000)
• 목마들의 언덕 (KBS2, 2000)
• Wang Rung's Land (SBS, 2000)
• Crash Landing on You (tvN, 2019)

Awards

• 2006 Golden Cinematography Awards: Best New Director (Princess Aurora)
• 2005 Women in Film Korea Awards: Woman Filmmaker of the Year (Princess Aurora)
• 2005 Korean Association of Film Critics Awards: Best New Director (Princess Aurora)
• 2002 Grand Bell Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Address Unknown)
• 1996 Korean Association of Film Critics Awards: Best Actress (301, 302)
• 1995 Blue Dragon Film Awards: Best Actress (301, 302)
• 1995 Chunsa Film Art Awards: Best Actress (301, 302)
• 1993 Baeksang Arts Awards: Best New Actress
• 1992 Seoul Performing Arts Festival: Best Actress

Other activities

• 2010 Full-time faculty at College of Convergence Culture and Arts, Sungshin Women's University
• 2010 9th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival - Jury chairman
• 2009 11th Seoul International Youth Film Festival - Jury[7]
• 2006 7th Jeonju International Film Festival - Jury, Indie Vision section[8]
• 2004 Adjunct professor of Film at Seoul Institute of the Arts

References

1. "K-FILM REVIEWS: 오로라 공주 (Princess Aurora)". Twitch Film. 19 March 2006. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
2. Jang, Sung-ran (5 October 2012). "I carved Out every single scene rather than filming: PANG Eun-jin, director of Perfect Number". Korean Cinema Today. Retrieved 2012-12-07.
3. Song, Soon-jin (28 January 2014). "PANG Eun-jin, the Director of Way Back Home: "I Want to Make Films That Audiences Respond To"". Korean Cinema Today. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
4. "If You Were Me 4". IndieStory. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
5. "Puff the Rice". IndieStory. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
6. "Ain't No Maid". IndieStory. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
7. "Jury" Archived 2011-09-14 at the Wayback Machine. SIYFF.com. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
8. "배우 출신 여성감독 방은진, 전주국제영화제 심사위원 위촉" (in Korean). Newsen. 20 March 2006. Retrieved 2012-12-01.

External links

• Pang Eun-jin at the Korean Movie Database
• Bang Eun-jin on IMDb
• Bang Eun-jin at HanCinema