Bong Joon-ho


This is a Korean name; the family name is Bong.
Bong Joon-ho
Born September 14, 1969 (1969-09-14) (age 39)
Flag of South Korea Seoul, South Korea
Occupation film director and screenwriter
Bong Joon-ho
Hangul 봉준호
Hanja 奉俊昊
Revised
Romanization		 Bong Jun-ho
McCune-
Reischauer		 Pong Chunho

Bong Joon-ho (born September 14, 1969 in Seoul) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He decided to become a filmmaker while in middle school, perhaps influenced by an artistic family (his father was a designer and his grandfather was a noted author.) He majored in sociology in Yonsei University in the late 1980s and was a member of the film club there. He liked Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Imamura Shohei at the time. In the early 1990s, he completed a two-year program at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. While there, he made many 16mm short films and his graduation work Memory in the Frame and Incoherence was invited to screen at the Vancouver and Hong Kong international film festivals.

In 1994 he directed the short film White People. His first feature film Barking Dogs Never Bite, part comedy and part cruel social satire, in 2000 had a low box office record but he became widely known in his home country for the next film Memories of Murder, based on the true story of the country's first known serial murders, in 2003. He attained both commercial success and critical acclaim through this film. The Host in 2006 was seen by a record ten million people in the country and was well received by the Cannes Festival. An amusing anecdote is told of him about The Host. In high school, he saw an unusual creature hanging down from a Han River bridge in Seoul and decided to make a monster film.

In 2008, he participated in the omnibus movie Tokyo ! (segment "Shaking Tokyo") with Michel Gondry and Leos Carax. His most recent film is Mother, the story of a mother who struggles to save her son from a murder accusation, which premiered at Cannes in 2009. He is planning to direct Le Transperceneige, an adaption of Jean-Marc Rochette and Jacques Loeb's comic of the same name.

Contents

Filmography

Director

Writer

Awards

2007

Oporto International Film Festival Best Director, for The Host

2006

Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia Best Special Effects and Orient Express Award for Best Asian Film, to The Host

2003

Sansebastian International Film Festival Silver Shell for Best Director, Altadis New Director Award, and FIPRESCI Award, to Memories of Murder

Torino Film Festival Best Screenplay Award, Audience Award, for Memories of Murder

Tokyo International Film Festival Asian Film Award, for Memories of Murder

2001

Hongkong International Film Festival FIPRESCI Award for young Asian filmmakers, to Barking Dogs Never Bite

Slamdance Film Festival Best Editing, for Barking Dogs Never Bite

Recurring Cast in Bong Joon-ho's Films

Byeon Hee-bong plays

The janitor in Barking Dongs Never Bite
The Sergeant Koo Hee-bong in Memories of Murder
Park Hee-bong The Host

Song Kang-ho plays

The detective Park Doo-man in Memories of Murder
Park Gang-doo in The Host

Bae Doo-na plays

Park Hyeon-nam in Barking Dongs Never Bite
Park Nam-joo in The Host

Park Hae-il plays

Park Hyeon-gyu in Memories of Murder
Park Nam-il in The Host

References

See also

External links

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Films directed by Bong Joon-ho

Barking Dogs Never Bite · Memories of Murder · The Host · Tokyo! · Mother · Le Transperceneige






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