Direction: Hong Sang-soo

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Hong Sang-soo. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


In Front of Your Face

2021 · Movie · 85 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Lee Hye-young · Cho Yun-hee · Kwon Hae-hyo · Shin Seok-ho

Synopsis She manages her daily life with a sense of mindfulness while keeping a grave secret to herself, and she decides to meet with a younger director who asked her to join his project, and after they meet there is sudden...

7.1

191 votes

7.1

191 votes

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Kim Sang-Kyung · Chu Sang-mi · Ye Ji-won · Kim Hak-sun

Synopsis Kim Yung-soo has just learned that he hasn't be chosen as the lead actor of his usual director's next movie so, when his old friend Sung-woo invites him to meet him in the city of Chuncheon, he accepts the offer....

7.1

586 votes

7.1

586 votes

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2011 · Movie · 29 min. · South Korea

7.1

82 votes

7.1

82 votes

Woman on the Beach

2006 · Movie · 127 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Ban-ya Choi · Go Hyun-jung · Jeong Chan · Kim Seung-woo

Synopsis A filmmaker, trying to complete a script, stumbles into relationships with two women during a stay at an off-season seaside resort. The affairs reveal the patterns of destructive behavior that define his romantic relationships—and generate material for the new film....

7.0

459 votes

7.0

459 votes

Night and Day

2008 · Movie · 145 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Gi Ju-bong · Cyril Hutteau · Su-jeong Hwang · Eun-hye Park

Synopsis "Night and Day" is centered around the mixed emotions found in travelling. Charactors in the film are Sung-nam Kim (played by Yeong-ho Kim), an artist selected by the Korean government that escaped from Seoul and currently resides in Paris, student...

6.9

373 votes

6.9

373 votes

The Day He Arrives

2011 · Movie · 79 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Yu Jun-sang · Song Seon-mi · Baek Jong-hak · Kim Sang-jung

Synopsis Sungjoon heads to Seoul to meet a close friend who lives in the Bukchon area. When the friend doesn’t answer his calls, Sungjoon wanders around Bukchon and runs into an actress he used to know. The two talk for a...

6.9

763 votes

6.9

763 votes

Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors

2000 · Movie · 126 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Lee Eun-ju · Mun Seong-kun · Han Myeong-gu · Jeong Ho-Bong

Synopsis Sujeong, a Cable TV writer is working with Youngsu, the producer of the same team. He goes with her to an art exhibition held by his former junior student, Jaehun. Jaehun is fascinated by Youngsu, and wants to date her....

6.8

278 votes

6.8

278 votes

Tale of Cinema

2005 · Movie · 89 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Kim Myeong-su · Kim Sang-Kyung · Seong-Yong Kye · Lee Ki-woo

Synopsis In Seoul, the paths of two men and one woman intersect and move apart from one another, centering around their love for cinema. A suicidal student meets a young woman who decides to follow him in his fatal gesture. Coming...

6.8

494 votes

6.8

494 votes

Hill of Freedom

2014 · Movie · 67 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Ryo Kase · Moon So-ri · Seo Young-hwa · Kim Eui-sung

Synopsis A Japanese man arrives in Korea to find his old lover. While he stays at a guest house, he encounters various people.

6.8

446 votes

6.8

446 votes

Oki's Movie

2010 · Movie · 80 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Lee Seon-gyun · Jeong Yu-mi · Moon Sung-keun · Eom Tae-gu

Synopsis OKI’S MOVIE is comprised of 4 short films: A DAY FOR INCANTATION, KING OF KISSES, AFTER THE SNOWSTORM and OKI’S MOVIE. Three main characters appear in all of the four shorts, having different but overlapping roles in each of them....

6.8

323 votes

6.8

323 votes

The Day After

2017 · Movie · 92 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Kim Min-hee · Kwon Hae-hyo · Kim Sae-byeok · Cho Yun-hee

Synopsis A woman who begins a job at a publishing house gets involved in his boss’ affair when the boss’ wife mistakes her for his mistress, a co-worker who he actually just broke up with.

6.8

707 votes

6.8

707 votes

Our Sunhi

2013 · Movie · 88 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Jeong Yu-mi · Lee Seon-gyun · Kim Sang-jung · Ye Ji-won

Synopsis Sunhi (Jeong Yu-Mi) graduated from college, majoring in film. In order to ask about a recommendation letter from Professor Choi (Kim Sang Jung) to study in the US, she visits her university after a long time. Sunhi expects Professor Choi...

6.8

428 votes

6.8

428 votes

The Novelist's Film

2022 · Movie · 92 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Lee Hye-young · Kim Min-hee · Seo Young-hwa · Ki Joo-bong

Synopsis Famous novelist Junhee’s reunion with two acquaintances would appear to be tinged with a slight sense of acrimony. The first of these colleagues gave up writing to open a bookstore on the outskirts of Seoul and has not given her...

6.8

719 votes

6.8

719 votes

Nobody’s Daughter Haewon

2013 · Movie · 88 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Jung Eun-chae · Lee Seon-gyun · Kim Ja-ok · Kim Eui-sung

Synopsis Is she tired of life or love? Why else is Haewon falling asleep in a restaurant? Haewon, a student, feels abandoned. Her mother is about to emigrate to Canada and Haewon has decided to end her affair with one of...

6.7

346 votes

6.7

346 votes

Grass

2018 · Movie · 66 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Kim Min-hee · Jung Jin-Young · Gi Ju-bong · Seo Young-hwa

Synopsis A cheerfully melancholy story about the guests at a small café whose owner loves classical music. Kim Minhee, who won the Silver Bear for Best Actress in 2017, plays a café regular who always seems to be at the table...

6.6

710 votes

6.6

710 votes

The Power of Kangwon Province

1998 · Movie · 110 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Baek Jong-hak · Jaehyun Chun · Sunyoung Im · Yoo-Seok Kim

Synopsis Aboard a crowded overnight passenger train bound for the seaside resort of Kangwon province, an exhausted, half-asleep, standing commuter momentarily drifts into annoyed consciousness after having been bumped into by an oblivious, bespectacled, casually dressed man named Jaewan (Chun Jaehyun)...

6.6

173 votes

6.6

173 votes

Right Now, Wrong Then

2015 · Movie · 121 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Jung Jae-young · Kim Min-hee · Youn Yuh-jung · Gi Ju-bong

Synopsis Film director Chun-Soo (Jung Jae-Young) arrives in Suwon one day earlier than scheduled. He has a special lecture to give the next day. Chun-Soo decides to visit a palace and meets young Hee-Jung (Kim Min-Hee) there. Hee-Jung is a painter...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Hahaha (Ha Ha Ha)

2010 · Movie · 116 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Kim Sang-Kyung · Yu Jun-sang · Moon So-ri · Youn Yuh-jung

Synopsis Filmmaker JO Munkyung plans to leave Seoul to live in Canada. So days before his departure, he meets his close friend BANG Jungshik, who is a film critic. After a few rounds, they find out coincidentally, they have both been...

6.6

242 votes

6.6

242 votes

Yourself and Yours

2016 · Movie · 86 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Kim Ju-hyuk · Lee You-young · Kwon Hae-hyo · Yu Jun-sang

Synopsis Painter Youngsoo hears that his girlfriend Minjung has been drinking and fighting with another man. That night they argue, and Minjung leaves, saying they should stop seeing each other for a while. The next day, Youngsoo sets out to look...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Like You Know It All

2009 · Movie · 126 min. · South Korea

Direction Hong Sang-soo

Cast Kim Tae-woo · Go Hyun-jung · Uhm Ji-won · Kong Hyeong-jin

Synopsis KU Kyung-nam, who is stuck with the label of an ‘art-house film director’, attends the festival in a small town as a jury. In the town, he bumps into an old friend BU. Over drinks, KU is dragged to BU’s...

6.5

218 votes

6.5

218 votes