Bong Joon-hoFilmography

Occupation:
Actor, Director, Editor, Screen Story, Screenwriter

  • Mother

    Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

    Actors: Kim Hye-Ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo, Park Eun-kyo

    Synopsis: A woman devoted to her son struggles to keep him from spending his life in prison in this drama from director Bong Joon-ho. Do-jun (Weon Bin) is a man in his mid-twenties who isn't especially bright and is easily led. Do-jun lives with his elderly mother (Kim Hye-ja), who loves him fiercely even Read More

    1/1/10

  • Tokyo!

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito, Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer

    Synopsis: Directors Michel Gondry, Bong Joon-ho, and Leos Carax each direct a segment of this triptych feature about life in 21st century Tokyo. The saga begins with Gondry's segment, entitled "Interior Design," about a young couple who moves in with an old friend while attempting to establish themselves in Read More

    3/6/09

  • 40 x 15

    Synopsis: Director Olivier Jahan offers an glimpse into The Director's Fortnight, a sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival conceived by a group of filmmakers known as the Société des Réalisateurs de Films who sought to counter the academism of the main part of the world-renowned festival. Pierre-Henri Deleau Read More

    2008

  • The Host

    Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

    Actors: Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Du-na, Ko A-Sung

    Synopsis: When a young girl is snatched away from her father by a horrifying giant monster that emerges from the River Han to wreak havoc on Seoul, her entire family sets out to locate the beast and bring their little girl back home to safety in South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's big-budget creature Read More

    7/27/06

  • Memories of Murder

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Rwe-ha, Song Jae-Ho, Byun Hee-bong

    Synopsis: Memories of Murder is a policier based on the actual case of the first recorded serial killer in Korea's history. The rape murders began in 1986 in Hwaseong, a small village south of Seoul, and continued for several years during a time of political upheaval in South Korea. Detective Park Doo-man (Song Kang-ho Read More

    6/24/05

  • The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema

    Actors: Ahn Sung-ki, Bae Chang-Ho, Bong Joon-ho, Derek Elley, Hong Sang-soo

    2005

  • Barking Dogs Never Bite

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: A man who has decided dogs are not his best friend takes matters into his own hands in this dark comedy from South Korea. A college professor (Lee Sung-jae), who with his wife is awaiting the birth of their baby, is being led to the end of his tether by the constant barking of a dog Read More

    2000

  • Phantom, The Submarine

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Choe Minsu, Cheong Wu-seong, Yun Ju-sang

    Synopsis: A renegade Korean submarine threatens to nuke Japan in this high-octane suspense drama. After getting court-martialed and sentenced to death for slaying a deranged superior officer, protagonist Lee Chan-suk (Cheong We-seong) finds himself sentenced to life on the Phantom, South Korean's first Read More

    1999

  • Motel Seoninjang

    Crew: First Assistant Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Lee Mi-Yun, Jin Hee-Kyung, Jung Woo-Sung, Park Shin-yang

    Synopsis: Room 407 in a Seoul "love hotel" is rented by the night or by the hour. Four sequences take place inside Room 407: a young man awaits his girlfriend so they can celebrate her birthday; a college student plans to complete a video necessary for his filmmaking class, but his female lead is delayed by Read More

    1997

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