Bong Joon-ho
Bong Joon-ho (Korean: 봉준호), born September 14, 1969, is a South Korean film director, producer and screenwriter. His films are characterised by emphasis on social themes, genre-mixing, black humor, 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), and the Academy Award-winning black comedy social 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, although both Snowpiercer and Okja (2017) are mostly in the English language. Two of his films have screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival—Okja in 2017 and Parasite in 2019; the latter earned the Palme d'Or, which was a first for a South Korean film. Parasite also 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 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.
Incoherence
(Paperboy's Brother)
Doomsday Book
(Lee Joon-ho)
Making Memories of Murder
(Himself)
Memories
(Self)
Kurosawa's Way
(Self)
The Host : Histoires de famille
(Bong Joon-ho)
보는 것을 사랑한다
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
(Self)
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
(Self)
Kultur-King Korea
Making Parasite
(Self)
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
(Himself)
Crush and Blush
(English teacher)
Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young
(Himself)
Searching for Bong
(Himself)
The Clouzot Scandal
(Self)
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
(Self)
Understanding Movies
(Himself)
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
(Himself)
Mother, Son and Murder: The Making of Mother
(Himself)
Can I Borrow a Light?
(Guitar Man)
A Brave New World
(Lee Joon-ho)
Where is my DVD?
(Self)
No Blood No Tears
(Officer (cameo))
봉준호, 장르가 되다
Next Entertainment, Visionary
(Self)
The Crunchyroll Anime Awards
(Self - Presenter)
You Quiz On The Block
(Self (voice))
Your Song
(Himself)
The Oscars
(Self)
Modern Korea
(Self (archive footage))
The Host
(Screenplay)
The Host
(Director)
Barking Dogs Never Bite
(Director)
Mother
(Screenplay)
Mother
(Director)
Memories of Murder
(Director)
Memories of Murder
(Writer)
Tokyo!
(Director)
Jeonju Digital Project 2004
(Writer)
Incoherence
(Director)
Untitled Bong Joon-ho Animated Film
(Director)
Snowpiercer
(Director)
Snowpiercer
(Screenplay)
Influenza
(Director)
Sink & Rise
(Director)
Phantom: The Submarine
(Writer)
Snowpiercer
(Screenstory)
Looking For Paradise
(Director)
Looking For Paradise
(Editor)
Looking For Paradise
(Writer)
Sounds from Heaven and Earth
(Lighting Technician)
The Love of a Grape Seed
(Lighting Technician)
Sea Fog
(Writer)
Mickey 17
(Director)
Mickey 17
(Producer)
Untitled Lee Isaac Chung Project
(Producer)
Okja
(Director)
3.11 A Sense of Home
(Director)
The Host 2
(Characters)
Okja
(Producer)
Tokyo!
(Writer)
Untitled Bong Joon-ho Animated Film
(Screenplay)
Incoherence
(Writer)
Antarctic Journal
(Writer)
Sea Fog
(Producer)
Motel Cactus
(Writer)
Okja
(Screenplay)
Okja
(Story)
Barking Dogs Never Bite
(Screenplay)
Incoherence
(Editor)
7 Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than a Lover
(Adaptation)
Motel Cactus
(Assistant Director)
White Man
(Writer)
White Man
(Director)
The Memories in My Frame
(Writer)
The Memories in My Frame
(Director)
Influenza
(Writer)
Sink & Rise
(Writer)
Jeonju Digital Project 2004
(Director)
Parasite
(Story)
Parasite
(Director)
Parasite
(Producer)
Parasite
(Screenplay)
2001 Imagine
(Director of Photography)
Mickey 17
(Writer)
Snowpiercer
(Executive Producer)
Parasite
(Executive Producer)
Snowpiercer
(Original Story)