FEATURE FILMS 

2009  Hwang Hae : Pre Production

2009  And Us, Fashion Model Ha Won : Filming

2009  Love Fiction, Novelist Goo Ju Weol : Pre Production

2009  Parallel Life : Post Production

2009  Take Off  ( Gookga Daepyo ), Ski Jumper Bop Cha 

2009   Like You Know It All , Sculptor Mr.Cho 

2009  The Boat : No Boys, No Cry, Smuggler Hyung Goo

2008  My Dear Enemy ( Meotjin haroo ), Jo Byung Woon

2008  E.T. at My School ( Wool Hag-gyo E.T. ), Doctor ( Cameo )

2008  The Moonlight of Seoul ( Beastie Boys ), Host Jae Hyun

2008  The Chaser ( Chu Gyeok Ja ), Serial Killer Ji Young Min

2008  Forever the Moment, Blind Date Man ( Cameo )

2007  Breath ( Soom ), Husband

2006  Never Forever ( Dubeon-jje Sarang ), Ji Hah

2006  The Fox Family ( Gumiho gajok ), Son

2006  Time ( Shi gan ), Ji Woo

2005  The Unforgiven ( Yongseobadji mothan ja ), Yu Tae Jung

2005  She’s on Duty ( Jambok-geunmu ), Detective Cho Gi Hoon

2004  Mr.Gam’s Victory ( Superstar Gam Sa Yong ), Kim Woo Yeol

2002  Madeleine, Joon Ho

  

SHORT FILM

2005  I am not that kind of person ( na geu reon sa ram a ni e yo ), Police Officer ( Special Starring )

  

TV DRAMAS 

2007  MBC H.I.T ( Homicide Investigation Team ), Prosecutor Kim Jae Yoon

2005  SBS Lovers in Prague, Bodyguard of Jae Hee  Ann Dong Nam

2005  MBC Best Theater < Love Holic Project >, Min Wook

2004  KBS The Age of Warriors ( Mooinshidae ), Lee Ji Kwang

2003  KBS Wedding Story <Unstoppable man>, <My husband is 19>

2002  SBS Live Right

  

THEATER

2003  Othello, Othello

2002  Waiting for an Altitude, Pozzo

2002  The Glass Menagerie, Jim

2001  Carmen, Don Hose

2001  Good Doctor

2000  Be Strong Gum-soon!

  

OTHER WORKS

Music Video

2007  Bae-ban ( Betrayal ) by Big Mama  

Commercials

2009  Basso

2008  HEAD

2007  Nike+

2007  Bekseju

2005  KFC

2004  Opt Jeans

2001  Bacchus

1998  Beskin Robbins

 

 

 

Excerpt from Film Reviews

My Dear Enemy

Ha, so creepy as the wily killer in “The Chaser,” is almost unrecognizable here as the devil-may-care Byeong-woo, but does manage to hint at layers beneath the surface.

Derek Elley, Variety, Oct 5 2008

 

Korea’s hottest actors Jeon Do-youn and Ha Jung-woo display fabulous rapport.

Ha Jung-woo, who terrifies as a psychopath in “The Chaser,” is effortlessly convincing as the lovable louse that women love to hate.

Maggie Lee, Hollywood Reporter, Oct 5 2008

On the surface, his shameless parasitic character seems to be an extension of the swindling host he played in “The Moonlight of Seoul.” But the actor employs hyperrealism complete with sleepy eyes and a rhythmic bounce in his walk to craft a completely new personality.

Lee Hyo Won, Korea Times, Sep 18 2008

 

The Chaser

Jung-woo Ha’s Young-min is just as riveting. He is blase, almost robot-like when he commits his crimes, but watch the way his seemingly feigned abstraction starts to slip away in a scene where he is left alone in the police station with a woman policeman, and again, more violently, when a psychiatrist begins probing. He is a creepy close relative of the hypnotist Mamiya in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure.

Bangkok Post, Sep 05 2008

I can’t say enough to praise Kim without recognizing the acting talents of Ha Jung-woo as the frustrating and sickening antagonist. So many moments of me cursing and turning my head away in horror whilst watching the movie was due to Ha.

speedpop@NeoGAF, July 6 2008

Meanwhile, Jung-woo Ha as the unstable killer gives an amazingly nuanced performance. You wont get any of the over-acting found with most serial killer performances. The normalcy that Jung-woo Ha brings to Young-min’s psychotic character feels entirely unnerving because he could be any of the “normal” guys you see walking on the streets.

Lunapark6, June 29 2008

HA Jung-woo’s acting of a serial killer who repeats the murders he himself can’t understand while he smiles with a sweet glow shows his highly destructive power.

 EUH So-woong, Chosun Daily, Feb 15 2008

HA Jung-woo breaks down to a serial killer who is frightening and despising enough to curse at. This is more than enough to show his passion and for us to praise him for it. In THE CHASER, HA Jung-woo indulges in committing murders without a blink of the eye and with an indifferent face. With not even a single bit of remorse, he portrays a psychopath who has no feelings whatsoever. Also, he may look like an innocent child but then suddenly he lets out a furious rage and puts the audience at the end of their seats. Those who have seen the film has said, “Korea’s best murderer has been born,”and praised HA Jung-woo for his acting.

HONG Jung-won, News N, Feb 22 2008

Ha Jeong-woo (”Never Forever“), whom renowned director Martin Scorsese had praised as having “as much potential as Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon”, brazenly displays an animalistic instinct for acting. He is both passively aggressive and “aggressively passive” as the enigmatic murderer.

Lee Hyo Won, Korea Times, Jan 31 2008

 

The Moonlight of Seoul

Ha gives yet another gripping performance, offering more of that animalistic acting instinct in his recent box office smash “The Chaser.”

Lee Hyo Won, Korea Times, Apr 24 2008

Ha is now the most sought-after film star following the runaway success of “The Chaser,” a thriller that further showcases the actor’s passionate acting spirit.

Ha Jung-woo’s nuanced performance occasionally lightens up the otherwise depressingly static storyline.

Yang Sung Jin, Koreaherald, Apr 21 2008

 

Never Forever

As Jihah, popular Korean newcomer Ha (”The Unforgiven”) manages the tricky job of connecting with Farmiga in an English-language performance that requires him to stay emotionally guarded.

Justin Chang, Variety, Jan 26 2007

Jihah played with a perfect mix of frustration, slyness, and befuddlement by Ha Jung Woo

 Jason Ferguson, Metro Times, Sep 10 2008

 

Time

It’s a great wonder that the actors can keep such tricky material afloat. Ha Jung-woo comes off extremely realistic as the typically nagged boyfriend early on and then subtly brokenhearted later.

 FILM-FORWARD.COM, July 13 2007

The film’s three lead performances, by Mr. Ha as Ji-woo and by Ms. Seong and Ms. Park as the two incarnations of his lover, are fearlessly honest, so attuned to contemporary anxieties about sex, love and social status that the characters’ unhappiness is as squirm-inducing as the movie’s close-ups of sliced flesh.

Newyork Times, July 13 2007 

 

 

 

 

International Film Festivals

2008  PIFF ( The Chaser ) ( Korean Cinema Today Panorama )

2008  Cannes International Film Festival ( The Chaser ) ( Midnight Screenings )

2007  PIFF ( Breath ) ( Korean Cinema Today Panorama )

2007  Deauville American Film Festival ( Never Forever ) ( Jury Prize )

2007  Cannes International Film Festival ( Breath ) ( Competition )

2007  Fantasporto Oporto International Film Festival ( Time ) ( Directors Week Competition, Orient Express )

2007  Sundance International Film Festival ( Never Forever ) ( Dramatic Competition )

2006  PIFF ( Star Summit Asia : Asia’s Rising Star )

2006  Cannes International Film Festival ( The Unforgiven ) ( Un Certain Regard )

2006  Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( Time ) ( Opening Film )

2005  Pusan International Film Festival, PIFF ( The Unforgiven ) ( New Currents Special Mention, PSB Audience Award, FIPRESCI Award, NETPAC Award )

 

 

 

 

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