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Born in 1972 in Hongcheon County, Cho Chang-ho studied film directing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.
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Cho wrote and directed The Peter Pan Formula (2006) and Lovers Vanished (2010). He began his filmmaking career as an assistant director on Yim Soon-rye"s Three Friends (1996), Kim Ki-duk"s Birdcage Inn (1998) and Bad Guy (2002), and Byun Hyuk"s Interview (2000). He made his feature directorial debut in 2005 with The Peter Pan Formula, a coming-of-age film about a high school swimming prodigy who suddenly decides to quit, then faces skyrocketing cr card bills when his mother becomes comatose after a suicide attempt.
The Peter Pan Formula received a theatrical release in South of Korea in 2006.
In 2007, alongside fellow directors Park Soo-young and Kim Sung-ho, Cho joined Fantastic Parasuicides, an omnibus of three short films that center on people who undergo surreal experiences in the moment they decide to kill themselves. In Cho"s segment "Fly Away, Chicken!," Kim Nam-jin played a suicidal police officer who witnesses two men sexually assaulting a woman, then later uses two of the three bullets in his gun to kill them, leaving the last one for himself.
Cho then cast Kim Nam-gil and Hwang Woo-seul-hye in Lovers Vanished (2010), a moody melodrama about an Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome-infected fugitive who becomes the chef of an emotionally withdrawn restaurateur. Cho said, "The first phrase that pops into mind when I think about this movie is "maximization of emotion." Vanished asks how a person overcome with despair can continue to exist and become curious about his future.
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