Tcha Seung-jai
| Korean spelling | |
|---|---|
| Hangeul | 차승재 |
| Hanja | 車 勝 宰 |
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Revised Romanization |
Cha Seung-jae |
Tcha Seung-jai (also Romanized as Cha Seung-jae or Cha Seoung-jae; born March 26, 1960 ) is a South Korean film producer .
In the early 2000s, Tcha was one of the most influential film producers in South Korea . He founded the production company Sidus Pictures . In 2001 he produced the historical epic Musa - The Warrior, the most expensive South Korean film at the time. He was considered the most ambitious producer of Chungmuro (a synonym for the South Korean film industry, analogous to Hollywood ). Some of his most successful productions are Girls' Night Out (1998), Save the Green Planet (2003), Memories of Murder (2003) and A Dirty Carnival (2006). In her early years he worked with numerous directors who later shaped the film industry, including Hur Jin-ho , Im Sang-soo , Bong Joon-ho , Jang Joon-hwan , Choi Dong-hoon , Yoo Ha and Yim Pil-sung .
In 2005 Sidus Pictures merged with Kim Mi-hee's production studio Fun & Happiness to form Sidus FNH. In 2009 he left the company and temporarily taught as a professor at Dongguk University . In 2011 he founded the production company Nomad Films, thereby focusing on smaller film productions.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Brian Yecies, Ae-Gyung Shim: Power of the Korean Film Producer: Park Chung Hee's Forgotten Film Cartel of the 1960s Golden Decade and its Legacy . In: The Asia-Pacific Journal . tape 10 , no. 3 , December 24, 2012 ( full access ).
- ↑ Darcy Paquet: Tcha Seung-Jai. In: Variety . October 5, 2007, accessed July 15, 2019 .
- ↑ a b TCHA Sung-jai. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tcha, Seung-jai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 차승재 (Hangeul); 車 勝 宰 (Hanja); Cha, Seung-jae (revised romanization); Cha, Seoung-jae; Tcha Sung-jai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1960 |