Directing
Bong Joon Ho
Born September 14, 1969 · Daegu, South Korea (age 56)
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 come…
Known For
Parasite · 2019Parasite
★ 8.52019
MovieComedyThriller
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.
Memories of Murder · 2003Memories of Murder
★ 8.12003
MovieCrimeDrama
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 in a futile effort to solve the case.
Mickey 17 · 2025Mickey 17
★ 6.82025
MovieScience FictionComedy
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.
The Host · 2006The Host
★ 7.02006
MovieHorrorDrama
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.
Snowpiercer · 2013Snowpiercer
★ 6.92013
MovieActionScience Fiction
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.
Okja · 2017Okja
★ 7.32017
MovieAdventureDrama
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
Mother · 2009Mother
★ 7.72009
MovieCrimeDrama
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! · 2008Tokyo!
★ 6.92008
MovieComedyDrama
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 a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
Movies
Parasite · 2019Parasite
★ 8.52019
MovieComedyThriller
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.
Memories of Murder · 2003Memories of Murder
★ 8.12003
MovieCrimeDrama
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 in a futile effort to solve the case.
Mickey 17 · 2025Mickey 17
★ 6.82025
MovieScience FictionComedy
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.
The Host · 2006The Host
★ 7.02006
MovieHorrorDrama
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.
Snowpiercer · 2013Snowpiercer
★ 6.92013
MovieActionScience Fiction
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.
Okja · 2017Okja
★ 7.32017
MovieAdventureDrama
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
Mother · 2009Mother
★ 7.72009
MovieCrimeDrama
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! · 2008Tokyo!
★ 6.92008
MovieComedyDrama
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 a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
Barking Dogs Never Bite · 2000Barking Dogs Never Bite
★ 6.82000
MovieComedyCrime
An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.
Where is my DVD? · 2013Where is my DVD?
★ 9.72013
MovieDramaComedy
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 known....
Kurosawa's Way · 2011Kurosawa's Way
★ 5.82011
MovieDocumentary
Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.
The Clouzot Scandal · 2017The Clouzot Scandal
★ 6.52017
MovieDocumentaryTV Movie
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 tyrannical director, a contrasting portrait of a visionary, an agitator, an artist against the system.
Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club · 2023Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
★ 6.92023
MovieDocumentary
This intimate documentary explores a bygone era of cinematic passion and the emergence of young film enthusiasts in South Korea, including Bong Joon Ho.
Doomsday Book · 2012Doomsday Book
★ 6.22012
MovieScience FictionDrama
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 segment, 'Happy Birthday', a young girl logs onto a strange website and places an order for a new billiard ball for her father. Soon afterwards a meteor heads toward Earth and people flee to underground bomb shelters.
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer · 2012Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
★ 8.02012
MovieDocumentary
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 HONG Sang-soo among others.
Influenza · 2004Influenza
★ 6.82004
MovieComedyCrime
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 of us who surround him. The 'real' images shown through the camera keep on becoming more 'corrupted' as the time goes by.
A Brave New World · 2012A Brave New World
2012
MovieScience FictionHorror
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.
Antarctic Journal · 2005Antarctic Journal
★ 6.12005
MovieHorrorThriller
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.
The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues · 2025The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues
2025
MovieDocumentary
Ten years after the first documentary, the legend of the Palme d’Or… continues. Some new laureates of the Cannes trophy relive, for us, the very special moments surrounding the awarding of the Palme d’Or.
Sea Fog · 2014Sea Fog
★ 6.92014
MovieThrillerDrama
A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
3.11 A Sense of Home Films · 20113.11 A Sense of Home Films
★ 6.52011
MovieAnimationDrama
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.
Phantom: The Submarine · 1999Phantom: The Submarine
★ 5.91999
MovieActionThriller
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.
Crush and Blush · 2008Crush and Blush
★ 6.32008
MovieComedyDrama
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.
Incoherence · 2025Incoherence
★ 6.32025
MovieComedyDrama
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 public toilet late at night.
TV Shows
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · 2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
★ 6.12015
SeriesComedy
Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, music, technology, and more. Featuring bandleader Jon Batiste with his band Stay Human, the Emmy Award-nominated show is broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater.
You Quiz on the Block · 2018You Quiz on the Block
★ 8.32018
SeriesComedy
Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show.
Snowpiercer · 2020Snowpiercer
★ 7.42020
SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.
The Oscars · 1953The Oscars
★ 7.01953
Series
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
Nattering with Nah · 2023Nattering with Nah
★ 10.02023
Series
Next Entertainment, Visionary · 2021Next Entertainment, Visionary
2021
SeriesDocumentary
Modern Korea · 2019Modern Korea
★ 10.02019
SeriesDocumentary
The documentary series were made to look back on Korea’s modern history. It tells stories of specific moments in time weaving together relevant video clips from news broadcasts, dramas, shows and other documentaries
Sohn's Questions · 2024Sohn's Questions
2024
Series
The Crunchyroll Anime Awards · 2018The Crunchyroll Anime Awards
★ 1.52018
Series
Annual awards ceremony by the anime streaming service Crunchyroll to recognize the best anime of the previous year.
Your Song · 2019Your Song
★ 9.02019
SeriesDocumentary
봉준호, 장르가 되다 · 2020봉준호, 장르가 되다
2020
Series