A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Jino Kang personifies exactly what The Good, the Tough, and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars is all about. He follows in the footsteps of the greats - guys like Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Jeff Speakman, and Don "The Dragon" Wilson ... he's a rare type of action star. His movies are homegrown, carefully constructed films, infused with his own personal philosophies, each showcasing his impressive Hapkido martial arts abilities. He's a rare breed in that he not only stars in his films, but he's also the writer, producer, and director.
Choreographer:
2002 Blade Warrior
Director:
2002 Blade Warrior
2011 Fist 2 Fist
2015 Fist 2 Fist 2: Weapon of Choice
Producer:
2002 Blade Warrior
2011 Fist 2 Fist
2015 Fist 2 Fist 2: Weapon of Choice
Writer:
2002 Blade Warrior
2011 Fist 2 Fist
2015 Fist 2 Fist 2: Weapon of Choice
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.