Bong Joon-ho
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Bong Joon Ho is a South Korean filmmaker. His work is characterized by emphasis on social and class themes, genre-mixing, dark comedy, and sudden tone shifts.
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Photos 8
Bong at a Q&A session for The Host in September 2006.
Bong at the 2013 Deauville American Film Festival
Bong (far right) at the Japanese premiere of Okja (2017).
Bong and stars at a 2019 press event for Parasite.
Bong at the Munich International Film Festival in July 2019
Bong with Robert Pattinson in South Korea in 2025
Bong in 2025In their own words 10
I grew up in a middle-class family.
As quoted in "Parasite director Bong Joon-ho: 'Korea seems glamorous, but the young are in despair" in The Guardian (31 January 2020)
My main job is not promoting a film, it’s writing scripts, and, of course, I’m doing that right now, in hotel rooms and on flights, but it hasn’t been easy.
As quoted in "Parasite director Bong Joon-ho: 'Korea seems glamorous, but the young are in despair" in The Guardian (31 January 2020)
Compared to Japanese or Hong Kong film, the history of Korean cinema is relatively lesser known to American and European audiences.
As quoted in "'Parasite' Director Bong Joon-ho 'Wanted To Reflect The Truth Of Current Times'" in NPR (10 December 2019)
Filmography 40
Parasite
Memories of Murder
Mickey 17
Snowpiercer
The Host
Okja
Mother
Barking Dogs Never Bite
Tokyo!
Sea Fog
Doomsday Book
Antarctic Journal
No Blood No Tears
Crush and Blush
Motel Cactus
Influenza
Phantom: The Submarine
Kurosawa's Way
White Man
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
The Memories in My Frame
Sink & Rise
The Clouzot Scandal
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
Incoherence
Mother, Son and Murder: The Making of Mother
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
Where is my DVD?
Searching for Bong
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
Memories
Jeonju Digital Project 2004
Looking For Paradise
Can I Borrow a Light?
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
A Brave New World
Ally98 credits on file
Television 11
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Snowpiercer
You Quiz on the Block
The Oscars
Nattering with Nah
The Crunchyroll Anime Awards
Modern Korea
Next Entertainment, Visionary
Your Song
Sohn's Questions
봉준호, 장르가 되다Awards 7
In their orbit 2
Connected to Bong 6
Han KangAlso won Ho-Am Prize in the Arts
Billy WilderAlso won Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
Emma ThomasAlso won Academy Award for Best Picture
Cristian MungiuAlso won Palme d'Or
Damien ChazelleAlso won Academy Award for Best Director
Steven SoderberghAlso won Academy Award for Best DirectorAbout this person
Bong Joon Ho is a South Korean filmmaker. His work is characterized by emphasis on social and class themes, genre-mixing, dark comedy, and sudden tone shifts. He is the recipient of numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and five Asian Film Awards, as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards. In 2017, he was included on Metacritic's list of the 25 best film directors of the 21st century, and in 2020, he was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time and among the Bloomberg 50.
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