Writer/director JANG Jin is known as one of the most distinctive voices to emerge out of the Korean cinema renaissance that began in the late 1990s. From the time he broke into the realm of theatre in 1995 with critically acclaimed plays like Heotang, he has developed a unique style that mixes humor, melodrama, and a keen observation of society.

JANG's experience in film first began back in 1995 when he assisted with the screenplay of the critically acclaimed A Hot Roof. After directing a short film, he dedicated himself to debuting as a film director, and in 1998 his first feature The Happenings was screened at the Pusan International Film Festival. He followed that up with The Spy (1999), a critically acclaimed comedy about a North Korean espionage agent who struggles to adjust to living in Seoul. JANG's biggest box-office success to date was with Guns & Talks (2001), a comedy about four talkative assassins that was a major hit in Korea, and is also being remade for the Chinese market. He will also enter the books as Korea's first director to make a film to be screened for screening on mobile phones.

After establishing the production company Film It Suda, JANG has also began working as a producer. Recent work of his as producer and screenwriter include A Letter From Mars (2003) and No Comment (2001), an unusual example of an omnibus work by debut directors that opened at #1 at the local box-office.

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Someone Special has been highly anticipated for no other reason that it is director JANG Jin's long-awaited follow-up to Guns & Talks (2001). And the first person he took in mind to realize this project was the inimitable actress and model LEE Na-young. Not so much for the pretty image she projects in her advertisements, but rather for her honest, forthright and at times quirky image. The unique onscreen situations that JANG Jin can create combined with LEE Na-young's unexpected and outlandish acting have made expectations for this film soar. Could this be the reason that, when conceiving this project, the director thought of her first?

The other partner that JANG Jin has chosen for this film is JUNG Jae-young. Perhaps this is no surprise -- after all, JUNG has starred in the director's previous films like Guns & Talks and No Comment, not to mention a large number of his plays. What is a surprise is that JUNG -- who has become well-known for playing tough, masculine men in No Blood No Tears and Silmido -- should take the lead role in a lighthearted comic love story. But as JANG Jin said, "It's no fun watching an actor who looks like he'd be good at melodrama play melodrama." True to his words, watching an actor like JUNG Jae-young make an unexpected transformation onscreen is far more interesting than seeing pretty boy actors star in romantic films, or easygoing actors star in comedies.

So the meeting of JANG Jin's uniquely clever screenplay, JUNG Jae-young's unexpectedly funny acting, and LEE Na-young's characteristically outlandish behavior in Someone Special has created one of this year's most effective synergies.