Bong Joon Ho
Also Known As: 봉준호, 奉俊昊, Bong Jun-ho, ポン・ジュノ, بونگ جون-هو, בונג ג'ון-הו, Пон Чжун Хо, Joon Ho Bong, Bong Joon-ho
Biography: 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 the upcoming Mickey 17 (2025) are Hollywoodco-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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Daegu, South Korea
Birthday: September 14, 1969
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Gender: Male
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Incoherence
Overview: Over three episodes, three respectable middle-aged men find themselves behaving badly. A teacher hides his pornographic magazine from a female student. A jogger steals milk and blames it on a newspaper delivery boy. A drunk man desperately searches for a public toilet late at night.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1994-05-31
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Doomsday Book
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-04-11
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Making Memories of Murder
Overview: Made in 2004, this extensive documentary chronicles the production and release of Memories of Murder.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-08-09
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Memories
Overview: The documentary gives a voice to all those who have experienced the crazy adventure of shooting Memories of Murder.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-07-11
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Kurosawa's Way
Overview: Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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The Host : Histoires de famille
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
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보는 것을 사랑한다
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-10-28
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40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Overview: A hstory of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-18
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Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
Overview: This intimate documentary explores a bygone era of cinematic passion and the emergence of young film enthusiasts in South Korea, including Bong Joon Ho.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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Kultur-King Korea
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-12-10
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Making Parasite
Overview: A short featurette on the making of Parasite.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-06-01
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Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-12-06
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Crush and Blush
Overview: 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!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-10-16
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Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young
Overview: A documentary consisting of twenty-two Korean directors' interviews about Kim Ki-young and respect for his work and the influence
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-01-21
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Searching for Bong
Overview: 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...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-10-29
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The Clouzot Scandal
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-17
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Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
Overview: Documentary on the making of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-02
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Understanding Movies
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-05-01
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Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-10-01
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Mother, Son and Murder: The Making of Mother
Overview: A documentary on the making of ‘Mother’.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-20
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Can I Borrow a Light?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-05-20
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A Brave New World
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-04-05
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Where is my DVD?
Overview: 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....
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-11-09
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No Blood No Tears
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-02-28
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