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FILM REVIEWS: Bong Joon-ho

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Director: Bong Joon-ho  

Genre: Comedy-Drama

Director Bong's superb debut is a black comedy which blends slapstick with distressed dogs to produce a quirky social satire 

 

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Director: Bong Joon-ho

Genre: Drama-Comedy

Director Bong’s short film is a social satire using a trio of tales to highlight the moral hypocrisy of powerful men

 

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Director:  Bong Joon-ho

Genre: Crime drama

Bong Joon-ho's first masterpiece is a rural crime mystery about the obsession of the detectives and their fear of failure   

 

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Director: Bong Joon-ho

Genre: Horror-Action

Bong Joon-ho's monster movie is a rip-roaring horror-action-comedy mash-up with plenty of social commentary bite  

 

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Director: Bong Joon-ho

Genre: Drama-Comedy

Experimental filmmaking from Bong as CCTV footage depicts the spiralling crime spree of a man over several years

 

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Director: Bong Joon-ho 

Genre: Crime-Thriller 

A murder mystery complicated by the monomaniacal love of a tenacious mother in Bong Joon-ho's masterpiece thriller 

 

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Director: Bong Joon-ho 

Genre: Action-Adventure

A young girl battles to save the genetically modified super pig she has raised in Bong Joon-ho’s razor-sharp yet sweet satire

 

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Director:  Bong Joon-ho

Genre: Comedy-Drama

Bong Joon-ho’s dark satire exposes Korea’s class divide and serves up a peerless cinematic masterpiece   

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PARASITE
 (2019)
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Director:  Bong Joon-ho

Genre: Comedy-Drama

Bong's masterpiece gets a monochrome makeover which accentuates the film’s bleak shades of class divide 

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Director: Bong Joon-ho 

Genre: Sci-fi–Action 

A madcap spin on a dystopian future, a rebellion sparks on a class-divided train containing earth’s last survivors

 

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MADAME FREEDOM
(1956)
THE WAILING
(2016)
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