Bong Joon Ho

The Valley (2027)

The story will reportedly follow an invertebrate deep-sea fish who believes he's suffering from spinal disk herniation. ...

Incoherence (2025)

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 p ...

Mickey 17 (2025)

Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living. ...

Parasite (2019)

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident. ...

Okja (2017)

A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja. ...

Sea Fog (2014)

A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea. ...

Snowpiercer (2013)

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine. ...

3.11 A Sense of Home Films (2011)

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day. ...

Mother (2009)

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent. ...

Tokyo! (2008)

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to ...

The Host (2006)

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her. ...

Antarctic Journal (2005)

Arctic cold and paranoia take their toll as Korean explorers are beset by the same strange occurrences that preceded the disappearance of a British team in 1922. ...

Influenza (2004)

The film starts with a man named Cho Hyuk-rae who has perched dangerously on top of the Han River Bridge. It is a sad picture of a man who has been caught unwittingly on a security camera. The camera continues to reveal the downward spiral of Cho and those ...

Sink & Rise (2004)

Under the Sungsan Bridge, in a waterside stand by the Han River, a poor and tired-looking father and daughter, Jae-mun, and In-seon, are arguing the generation gap over whether to buy boiled eggs or instant crackers. The stand owner Hee-bong hears Jae-mun ...

Jeonju Digital Project 2004 (2004)

Three digital short films: 'Influenza' by Bong Joon-ho, 'Kyo-shin' by Sogo Ishii, 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Yu Lik-wai ...

Memories of Murder (2003)

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer i ...

Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)

An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action. ...

Phantom: The Submarine (1999)

Korea's first nuclear submarine and a crew with no record of existence embark on a do-or-die mission into the deep waters of the Pacific. ...

Motel Cactus (1997)

The film consists of four episodes, all of which take place in Room 407 of Motel Cactus, a love hotel in Seoul. ...

7 Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than a Lover (1996)

Sounds from Heaven and Earth (1994)

Short film directed by Equan Choi. ...

The Memories in My Frame (1994)

A young boy struggles with the loss of his beloved dog. ...

White Man (1994)

A white-collar South Korean man discovers a severed human finger and keeps it. ...

2001 Imagine (1994)

John, a factory worker, believes himself to be the reincarnation of John Lennon. ...

The Love of a Grape Seed (1994)

Short film by Jae-Yeong Heo, Soo-gil Lee, and Derek Son Tae-woong. ...

Looking For Paradise (1992)

A gorilla searching for freedom while fighting a caterpillar that emerged from its fecal matter. (Note: This early student film was only screened privately for members of a film club and has not been publicly released or made available for viewing. ...

Incoherence (2025)

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 p ...

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

This intimate documentary explores a bygone era of cinematic passion and the emergence of young film enthusiasts in South Korea, including Bong Joon Ho. ...

Kultur-King Korea (2022)

Making Parasite (2020)

A short featurette on the making of Parasite. ...

Memories (2018)

The documentary gives a voice to all those who have experienced the crazy adventure of shooting Memories of Murder. ...

The Clouzot Scandal (2017)

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 tyr ...

Searching for Bong (2015)

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... ...

Understanding Movies (2014)

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 Understa ...

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

Documentary on the making of the film. ...

Where is my DVD? (2013)

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 know ...

Ari Ari the Korean Cinema (2012)

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 ...

Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer (2012)

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 HO ...

Doomsday Book (2012)

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 se ...

A Brave New World (2012)

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. ...

Kurosawa's Way (2011)

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work. ...

Mother, Son and Murder: The Making of Mother (2010)

A documentary on the making of 'Mother'. ...

Can I Borrow a Light? (2009)

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 b ...

Crush and Blush (2008)

After being demoted from teaching Russian to middle-school English students, Me-sook is literally red-faced with shame, because on top of all her other issues — unrequited love, unpopularity — Me-sook has a blushing problem. ...

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

A history of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection. ...

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

A documentary consisting of twenty-two Korean directors' interviews about Kim Ki-young and respect for his work and the influence ...

Making Memories of Murder (2005)

Made in 2004, this extensive documentary chronicles the production and release of Memories of Murder. ...

No Blood No Tears (2002)

A former safecracker makes a living as a taxi driver but continues to be haunted by her past. One day she chances upon an aspiring singer, who is a spitting image of herself back in the day. Together, the two women plot to steal money from gangsters. ...