Bong Joon-ho

Bong Joon-ho

Born: September 14, 1969
in Daegu, South Korea
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.

Movies for Bong Joon-ho...

Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
Title: Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
Character: Self
Released: October 6, 2023
Type: Movie
This intimate documentary explores a bygone era of cinematic passion and the emergence of young film enthusiasts in South Korea, including Bong Joon Ho.
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Kultur-King Korea
Title: Kultur-King Korea
Released: December 10, 2022
Type: Movie
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보는 것을 사랑한다
Title: 보는 것을 사랑한다
Released: October 28, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: Next Entertainment, Visionary
Character: Self
Released: January 18, 2021
Type: TV
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Making Parasite
Title: Making Parasite
Character: Self
Released: June 1, 2020
Type: Movie
A short featurette on the making of Parasite.
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Title: 봉준호, 장르가 되다
Released: February 10, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Your Song
Character: Himself
Released: January 17, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: You Quiz On The Block
Character: Self (voice)
Released: August 29, 2018
Type: TV
Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show.
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Memories
Title: Memories
Character: Self
Released: July 11, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: The Crunchyroll Anime Awards
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: February 24, 2018
Type: TV
Annual awards ceremony by the anime streaming service Crunchyroll to recognize the best anime of the previous year.
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The Clouzot Scandal
Title: The Clouzot Scandal
Character: Self
Released: October 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the world, who knew how to offer both great shows and subtle studies of characters. Beyond the myth of the tyrannical director, a contrasting portrait of a visionary, an agitator, an artist against the system.
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Searching for Bong
Title: Searching for Bong
Character: Himself
Released: October 29, 2015
Type: Movie
Unlike our dream of becoming a great filmmaker, the movie boards that adults talk about are tough. We are looking for our idol, Bong Joon-ho...
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Understanding Movies
Title: Understanding Movies
Character: Himself
Released: May 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Ji-han's set for graduation film. It is not as easy as it feels to devote all the production techniques that he have learned in school for four years. There was a man who appeared like a savior at the time, Louis Giannetti, the author of the movie Understanding! However, he begins to interfere with the filming site by cutting in on Ji-han's production of everything.
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Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
Title: Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 2014
Type: Movie
Documentary on the making of the film.
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Where is my DVD?
Title: Where is my DVD?
Character: Self
Released: November 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Go Gi-hwan is the actor who was starred in a large number of short films. However, he couldn't get any dvd from the directors. He's decided to collect his dvds meeting the directors who he used to work with, and he faces the fact that he couldn't have known....
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Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
Title: Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
Character: Himself
Released: December 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Director Chung Ji-Young criticizes the thought that older directors have difficulties in making certain movies. Actress Yoon Jin-Seo agonizes over her identity as an actress. In 2009, before the movie "Unbowed" was made, they met and planned a documentary about Korean movies, including the processes a Korean movie goes through and difficulites. "Ari Ari the Korean Cinema" is a documentary with interviews of Korean directors, actors and actresses.
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Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
Title: Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
Character: Himself
Released: October 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Prominent film critic Tony Rayns has long been a supporter of Korean cinema. This film illustrates Rayns’ affection for Korean cinema through interviews of Korean cineastes that have a special affinity for him, including JANG Sun-woo, LEE Chang-dong and HONG Sang-soo among others.
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Doomsday Book
Title: Doomsday Book
Character: Lee Joon-ho
Released: April 11, 2012
Type: Movie
In 'A Brave New World', a virus brings the city to ruins and zombies flood the streets of Seoul. In 'The Heavenly Creature', a robot reaches enlightenment while working at a temple, but its creators deem this phenomenon a threat to mankind. In the final segment, 'Happy Birthday', a young girl logs onto a strange website and places an order for a new billiard ball for her father. Soon afterwards a meteor heads toward Earth and people flee to underground bomb shelters.
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A Brave New World
Title: A Brave New World
Character: Lee Joon-ho
Released: April 5, 2012
Type: Movie
A geek is left home alone and his negligence causes the spread of a deadly contamination that infects the entire local population and turns them into flesh-eating zombies.
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Kurosawa's Way
Title: Kurosawa's Way
Character: Self
Released: May 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.
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Mother, Son and Murder: The Making of Mother
Title: Mother, Son and Murder: The Making of Mother
Character: Himself
Released: July 20, 2010
Type: Movie
A documentary on the making of ‘Mother’.
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Can I Borrow a Light?
Title: Can I Borrow a Light?
Character: Guitar Man
Released: May 20, 2009
Type: Movie
A thoughtful young man ambles around the Han River, providing an expansive setting for his contemplations. During a telephone call on the Jamsu Bridge, connecting the districts of Yongsan-gu and Seocho-gu in Seoul, he discovers his umbrella has been lost by the girl he lent it to, and judging by his disappointed reaction, we can see he is hurt at being forgotten. Another lost soul is on this bridge, a man with a guitar asks for a light and a song. Soon the young man’s problems are put into context, when arguments about umbrellas seem to fade into meaninglessness.
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Crush and Blush
Title: Crush and Blush
Character: English teacher
Released: October 16, 2008
Type: Movie
With her frumpy hair, blushing face, and awkward mannerisms, Yang Mi Sook has spent her entire life being unnoticed. Nicknamed Miss Carrot, she diligently teaches Russian to high school students who don't listen and ceaselessly pines after colleague Seo, her crush of ten years. Content with her uneventful, self-delusional existence, Mi Sook is sparked into action when hot young teacher Yuri comes strolling in and steals her class and her man. To nip their blooming romance in the bud, Mi Sook forms an unlikely alliance with Seo's misfit teenager daughter, who's every bit as eccentric as she is!
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40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Title: 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Character: Self
Released: May 18, 2008
Type: Movie
A hstory of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.
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Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young
Title: Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young
Character: Himself
Released: January 21, 2007
Type: Movie
A documentary consisting of twenty-two Korean directors' interviews about Kim Ki-young and respect for his work and the influence
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Making Memories of Murder
Title: Making Memories of Murder
Character: Himself
Released: August 9, 2005
Type: Movie
Made in 2004, this extensive documentary chronicles the production and release of Memories of Murder.
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No Blood No Tears
Title: No Blood No Tears
Character: Officer (cameo)
Released: February 28, 2002
Type: Movie
Gyung-sun is a washed-up cab driver who has been trying to go straight after years in trouble with the law after being a big-time safecracker. Soo-jin wants to be a famous singer, but lives the life of a trophy girlfriend to her vicious gangster boyfriend. An unlikely situation cause these two different women to meet where they plan a daring solution to both their problems that will escalate and threaten the wrath of many powerful and corrupt people around them.
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Incoherence
Title: Incoherence
Character: Paperboy's Brother
Released: May 31, 1994
Type: Movie
The misadventures of three seemingly unrelated South Korean men.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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The Host : Histoires de famille
Title: The Host : Histoires de famille
Character: Bong Joon-ho
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie