Hong Sang-soo
Biography
Hong Sang-soo (born October 25, 1960) is a South Korean writer-director. He has directed 33 films as of 2025.
Certain elements are commonly found in Hong's films. A typical Hong film highlights a theme of domestic realism with many of the scenes set on residential streets, cafes, hotels, schools, and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Characters are seen walking around the city, drinking soju, and having sex. The main characters are often movie directors or actors, and scenes typically consist of a single shot, often beginning and ending with a camera zoom. The budgets for his movies average about $100,000.
Hong is often spontaneous when shooting, delivering the day's scene on the morning of the shoot and frequently changing stories while on set. He rarely prepares scripts in advance. Hong's style has been compared to Eric Rohmer's, and it has even been argued that allusions to Rohmer's films appear in some films directed by Hong.
Acting (2 movies)
Directing (44 movies)
In Front of Your Face
2021
Ha Ha Ha
2010
Woman Is the Future of Man
2004
Woman on the Beach
2006
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
2000
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
2002
Night and Day
2008
The Day He Arrives
2011
Tale of Cinema
2005
Oki's Movie
2010
Like You Know It All
2009
The Power of Kangwon Province
1998
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1996
In Another Country
2012
Visitors
2009
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
2013
Our Sunhi
2013
Lost in the Mountains
2009
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Greetings for the New York Film Festival
2023
Hill of Freedom
2014
Walk Up
2022
Letter to the New York Film Festival
2021
Right Now, Wrong Then
2015
The Novelist's Film
2022
List
2011
Yourself and Yours
2016
In Water
2023
Claire's Camera
2018
On the Beach at Night Alone
2017
The Day After
2017
In Our Day
2023
Grass
2018
Small Flower
2023
A Traveler's Needs
2024
By the Stream
2024
Hotel by the River
2019
The Woman Who Ran
2020
Introduction
2021
Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
2021
It Snows on You
2024
What Does That Nature Say to You
2025
50:50
2013
Tree Above Volvo
2025