The filmmaker is revered for his incisive takedowns of the elite, but food is the fuel for his most shocking ideas.

Director Bong Joon Ho envisioned the interaction between the two families as a cat-and-mouse game of spying, set in an open-plan house. This layout allowed him to depict the spatial relationships ...

From "The Host" to "Mickey 17," the beloved Korean director has a perspective and way of seeing the world that's all his own. When Bong Joon Ho took the stage of the 92nd Academy Awards to accept ...

See our ethics statement. While Mickey 17 is adapted from Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey7, Ashton’s version is a much more straightforward sci-fi story than Bong’s. In the Korean virtuoso ...

Bong Joon-ho is a one of a kind. He’s only made 8 films in the past 25 years, but each feature is a precious jewel, expertly chiseled and finely shined. There are a handful of thematic and ...

Los Angeles will host a tribute to Bong Joon Ho's filmography at the Academy Awards and Academy Museum of Motion Pictures starting March 23. The exhibition will feature items from his renowned ...

Bong Joon-ho has not only never made a bad movie; he has delivered eight feature-length films separated only by degrees of brilliance and your personal preferences. Trying to rank them in any ...

Bong Joon-ho is often cited as one of the greatest living filmmakers because he is able to merge hyper-specific worldbuilding with overarching criticism of authoritarianism and capitalism. While ...

The tragedy is that the world is full of loan sharks. It is impossible to avoid them, as Bong chucklingly said in an interview: “Humans will always be evil, as well in the future, even when we m ...

Bong Joon Ho considers himself an optimist, even if it’s not exactly obvious from his work. “It doesn’t work to deny the dark reality, to just gloss over it,” he explained to me through ...

There's long been a current of topical anger running through the work of the brilliant South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho. Parasite was a domestic thriller and an indictment of economic inequality.