Jeong Chang-hwa

South Korean film director

Born

1 November 1928, South Korea

Citizenship

South Korea

Occupation

film director, screenwriter, film producer

Films here

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Chung Chang-wha (Korean: 정창화; born 1 November 1928) is a South Korean film director, producer and screenwriter. Chung made his directorial debut with The Final Temptation (1953) and gained attention only when he released A Sunny Field in 1960. During the 1960s he started collaborating with the Hong Kong film industry. In 1968, he joined Shaw Brothers and directed martial arts classics such as King Boxer (1972) (the first Hong Kong movie to reach No. 1 at the U.S. box office in 1973, also known as Five Fingers of Death). He moved to Golden Harvest in 1973, where he directed numerous productions until he returned to South Korea in 1977 to continue his career.

Filmography (martial arts films)

Frequent collaborators

• Lo Lieh
• Wang Ping
• Tien Feng
• Fang Mian
• Chao Hsiung
• Angela Mao

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q12616071 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.