Bong Joon Ho

Directing · Born 1969-09-14 in Daegu, South Korea

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…

Filmography

• Incoherence as Paperboy's Brother
• Doomsday Book as Lee Joon-ho
• Kurosawa's Way as Self
• Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club as Self
• Ari Ari the Korean Cinema as Self
• Crush and Blush as English teacher
• Searching for Bong as Self
• The Clouzot Scandal as Self
• Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen as Self
• Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer as Self