Bong Joon Ho

Known for DirectingBorn 1969-09-14 (age 56)Daegu, South Korea

Bong Joon-ho (Korean: 봉준호, Korean pronunciation:[poːŋ tɕuːnho → poːŋdʑunɦo]; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean filmmaker. The recipient of three Academy Awards, his work is characterised by emphasis on social and class themes, genre-mixing, dark comedy, and sudden tone shifts. He first became known to audiences and achieved a cult following with his directorial debut film, the black comedy Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), before achieving both critical and commercial success with his subsequent films: the crime thriller Memories of Murder (2003), the monster film The Host (2006), the science fiction action film Snowpiercer (2013), which served as Bong's English language debut, and the acclaimed black comedy thriller Parasite (2019), all of which are among the highest-grossing films in South Korea, with Parasite also being the highest-grossing South Korean film in history. All of Bong's films have been South Korean productions. However, Snowpiercer, Okja (2017) and Mickey 17 (2025) are Hollywood co-productions with significant use of the English language. Two of his films have been screened in competitions at the Cannes Film Festival — Okja in 2017 and Parasite in 2019; the latter earned the Palme d'Or, the first for a South Korean film. Considered an immediate favourite by the Academy Awards, Parasite became the first South Korean film to receive Academy Award nominations, with Bong winning Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, making Parasite the first film in the award's history not in English to win Best Picture. In 2017, Bong was included on Metacritic's list of the 25 best film directors of the 21st century. In 2020, Bong was included in Time's annual list of 100 Most Influential People and Bloomberg 50. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bong Joon-ho, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Nattering with Nah

Modern Korea

Where is my DVD?

Your Song

Parasite

Mother, Son and Murder: The Making of Mother

You Quiz on the Block

Memories of Murder

Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer

Mother

Snowpiercer

Okja

Searching for Bong

Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club

Mickey 17

Sea Fog

Snowpiercer

The Host

Tokyo!

Looking For Paradise

Barking Dogs Never Bite

Influenza

The Clouzot Scandal

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

The Oscars

Incoherence

Crush and Blush

Doomsday Book

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Memories

Antarctic Journal

No Blood No Tears

Can I Borrow a Light?

Kurosawa's Way

Phantom: The Submarine

Motel Cactus

Ari Ari the Korean Cinema

Sink & Rise

White Man

The Memories in My Frame

Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen

40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

7 Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than a Lover

2001 Imagine

Jeonju Digital Project 2004

The Crunchyroll Anime Awards

Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema

The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues