Memories of Murder (2003)
Jul 29, 2004True Life Korean Serial Killer Thriller
Early film from Bong Joon-ho, a true crime work about the investigation into a rural Korean serial killer
Bong Joon-ho
The Host (2006)
Jul 24, 2006Korean Monster Movie
Bong Joon Ho, the South Korean director of Snowpiercer and Parasite, delivers his own version of a monster movie that certainly comes with a difference
Tokyo! (2008)
May 14, 2024Anthology of Surreal Japan-set Tales
Directors Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon Ho make an anthology of strange and surreal tales that take place in Tokyo
Snowpiercer (2013)
Jul 19, 2014Train Containing the Last Survivors of Humanity
One of the most original science-fiction films of recent years. Set aboard a train where the last survivors of humanity circle a frozen globe, this is less an action film than something like Runaway Train turned into a unique conceptual breakthrough story, all rent through with a fierce parable about social revolution
Okja (2017)
Jul 23, 2017Genetically-Engineered Super-Pigs
Boon Jong Ho's version of E.T., albeit one where E.T. is a genetically-engineered pig the size of an SUV, not to mention one with an oddball sense of humour that it is hard to imagine being enjoyed by young age groups
Mickey 17 (2025)
Apr 12, 2025Cloning/Planetary Colonisation
Parasite director Bong Joon Ho makes an ambitious SF film with Robert Pattinson as a clone(s) on a planetary colonisation expedition