Joon-ho Bong

Joon-ho Bong
Date of Birth: 14 Sep 1969
Country: South Korea
Total Credits at Criticker: 4 (Actor), 14 (Director), 15 (Writer)
Biography submitted by donmezsefa
Titles you haven't rated - Actor (4) | Director (14) | Writer (15)
Memories of Murder
In a small Korean province in 1986, three detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.
Barking Dogs Never Bite
An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action. (imdb)
The Host
Utilizing state-of-the-art special effects, The Host is both a creature-feature thrill ride and a poignant human drama. (Magnolia Pictures)
Tokyo!
"TOKYO!," the dynamic new film by three of world cinema's great visionaries: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho. A uniquely entertaining modern-day triptych, "TOKYO!" explores Japan's multifaceted capital city through three indelible stories: a Kafkaesque fable about a young woman's bizarre physical transformation; an arch-punk mini-monster-movie in which a man rises from the sewers to wreak havoc on the city; and a beguiling tale about a hermit who ventures outside in search of love. (movieweb.com)
Mother
A mother desperately searches for the killer that framed her son for their horrific murder. (imdb)
Antarctic Journal
A South Korean expedition is trekking across the Antarctic when they discover a journal left by a British team that was lost 80 years earlier. As they press onward, they begin to notice strange similarities between the ill-fated British journey and their own. In the unforgiving environment where small mistakes can doom an entire party, the team steadily descends deeper into fatal delusions.
Snowpiercer
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. (imdb)
Sea Fog
The ragtag crew of a fishing boat takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea, in this tense high-seas adventure. (TIFF)
Incoherence
Incoherence (1994) - Short Film
The vices and hypocrisy of three public figures.
Okja
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja. (imdb)
Parasite
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. (imdb)
Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers 2004
Influenza (...) Bong's disturbingly humorous mockumentary traces the downward spiral of an unemployed 31 year-old man as he is captured on Seoul's omnipresent CCTVs and observation cameras. (...) Dance With Me to the End of Love (...) Masochists only need apply. (...) Mirrored Mind (...) A woefully inarticulate and emotionally wraught young actress (Miwako Ichikawa) abandons a film her boyfriend is shooting. (https://jonpais.wordpress.com)
White Man
White Man (1994) - Short Film
The story of one man's unusual reaction to discovering a severed index while on his way to work.
Memories in My Frame
A little boy comes home from school and hears his dog barking, or does he? (imdb)
Mickey 17
Set in the year 2054, 'Mickey 17' follows a man who joins a space colony as an "Expendable", a disposable worker who gets cloned every time he dies. (wikipedia.org)