
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 Mickey 17 (2025) are Hollywood co-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.
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Acting (25 movies)

Incoherence
2025

Doomsday Book
2012

Making Memories of Murder
2005

Memories
2018

Kurosawa's Way
2011

보는 것을 사랑한다
2021

40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008

Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
2023

Kultur-King Korea
2022

Making Parasite
2020

Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
2012

Crush and Blush
2008

Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young
2007

Searching for Bong
2015

The Clouzot Scandal
2017

Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
2014

Understanding Movies
2014

Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
2012

Mother, Son and Murder: The Making of Mother
2010

Can I Borrow a Light?
2009

A Brave New World
2012

Where is my DVD?
2013

No Blood No Tears
2002

The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues
2025

Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
2025
Directing (18 movies)

The Host
2006

Barking Dogs Never Bite
2000

Mother
2009

Memories of Murder
2003

Tokyo!
2008

Incoherence
2025

The Valley
2027

Snowpiercer
2013

Influenza
2004

Sink & Rise
2004
Looking For Paradise
1992

Mickey 17
2025

Okja
2017

3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011

The Memories in My Frame
1994

White Man
1994

Jeonju Digital Project 2004
2004

Parasite
2019
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Looking For Paradise | 1992 | Writer |
| White Man | 1994 | Writer |
| The Memories in My Frame | 1994 | Writer |
| The Memories in My Frame | 1994 | Producer |
| Motel Cactus | 1997 | Writer |
| Phantom: The Submarine | 1999 | Writer |
| Barking Dogs Never Bite | 2000 | Screenplay |
| Memories of Murder | 2003 | Writer |
| Sink & Rise | 2004 | Writer |
| Influenza | 2004 | Writer |
| Jeonju Digital Project 2004 | 2004 | Writer |
| Antarctic Journal | 2005 | Writer |
| The Host | 2006 | Screenplay |
| Tokyo! | 2008 | Writer |
| Mother | 2009 | Screenplay |
| Snowpiercer | 2013 | Screenplay |
| Sea Fog | 2014 | Writer |
| Sea Fog | 2014 | Producer |
| Okja | 2017 | Producer |
| Okja | 2017 | Screenplay |
| Parasite | 2019 | Producer |
| Parasite | 2019 | Screenplay |
| Mickey 17 | 2025 | Producer |
| Mickey 17 | 2025 | Writer |
| Incoherence | 2025 | Writer |
| The Valley | 2027 | Screenplay |
| The Valley | 2027 | Producer |