Screenplay: Bong Joon-ho

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Bong Joon-ho. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Parasite (Gisaengchung)

2019 · Movie · 132 min. · South Korea

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Song Kang-ho · Lee Seon-gyun · Jang Hye-jin · Cho Yeo-jeong

Synopsis Parasite (Gisaengchung) (2019) follows the struggling Kim family, who live in a cramped semi-basement and hustle to make ends meet. When the son, Ki-woo, lands a tutoring job for the wealthy Park family, he seizes the opportunity to infiltrate their...

8.0

54K votes

8.0

54K votes

Memories of Murder

2003 · Movie · 130 min. · South Korea

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Song Kang-ho · Kim Sang-Kyung · Kim Roe-ha · Song Jae-ho

Synopsis South Korea in 1986 under the military dictatorship: Two rural cops and a special detective from the capital investigate a series of brutal rape murder. Their rude measures become more desperate with each new corpse found. Based on a true...

7.6

21K votes

7.6

21K votes

Mother

2009 · Movie · 128 min. · South Korea

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Kim Hye-ja · Won Bin · Jin Goo · Yoon Je-Moon

Synopsis In Mother (2009), a devoted single mother tirelessly fights to prove her mentally challenged son's innocence after he's accused of murdering a young girl. As the investigation unfolds, she uncovers unsettling truths about her small town and its residents. Driven...

7.2

8K votes

7.2

8K votes

Okja

2017 · Movie · 118 min. · South Korea

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Ahn Seo-Hyun · Tilda Swinton · Jake Gyllenhaal · Paul Dano

Synopsis In Okja (2017), a young girl named Mija forms a deep bond with Okja, a genetically engineered super pig raised by her family in the mountains of South Korea. When the powerful Mirando Corporation, creators of Okja, reclaims her for...

6.6

17K votes

6.6

17K votes

Tokyo!

2008 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction Bong Joon-ho · Leos Carax · Michel Gondry

Cast Yû Aoi · Yosiyoshi Arakawa · Jean-François Balmer · Julie Dreyfus

Synopsis Tokyo is a city of transitions in three short films. A young woman who finds her life useless experiences a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution; he calls himself "Merde" and speaks...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Barking Dogs Never Bite

2000 · Movie · 106 min. · South Korea

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Lee Sung-jae · Doona Bae · Byeon Hie-bong · Kim Ho-jung

Synopsis An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.

6.5

887 votes

6.5

887 votes

Snowpiercer

2013 · Movie · 126 min. · South Korea

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Chris Evans · Song Kang-ho · Tilda Swinton · Jamie Bell

Synopsis In Snowpiercer (2013), humanity's last survivors are aboard a perpetually moving train that circles a frozen, post-apocalyptic Earth. The train is divided by class, with the elite living in luxury at the front and the oppressed struggling in squalor at...

6.4

26K votes

6.4

26K votes

Mickey 17

2025 · Movie · 137 min. · United States

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Robert Pattinson · Naomi Ackie · Mark Ruffalo · Toni Collette

Synopsis Mickey 17 tells the story of an Expendable, which is an employee sent to colonize the ice planet of Niflheim. Mickey is the go-to employee that is sent on dangerous missions and each time he dies, he is regenerated into...

6.3

5K votes

6.3

5K votes

Incoherence

1994 · Movie · 30 min. · South Korea

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Yeon-su Yu · Kim Roe-ha · Park Kwang-jin · Yun Il-ju

Synopsis An editorial writer who habitually steals milk as he goes for his morning jog, an elite attorney caught by a guard while relieving himself, dead drunk on the street, and a university professor who enjoys pornographic magazines, get together on...

6.2

79 votes

6.2

79 votes

Sea Fog

2014 · Movie · 111 min. · South Korea

Direction Shim Sung-bo

Cast Kim Yoon-seok · Park Yoo-chun · Han Ye-ri · Mun Seong-kun

Synopsis 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 co-scripted by South Korean genre-movie guru Bong Joon-ho.

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

The Host

2006 · Movie · 119 min. · South Korea

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Song Kang-ho · Byeon Hie-bong · Park Hae-Il · Doona Bae

Synopsis Hee-bong (Byun Hee-bong) is the owner of a small food stand in the Han River Citizen's Park, selling squid, candy and beer to people who have come out to enjoy the sun. Gang-du (Song Kang-ho) is one of his three...

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6.0

32K votes

6.0

32K votes

Influenza

2004 · Movie · 30 min. · South Korea

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Yoon Je-Moon · Ko Su-hee

Synopsis A man named Jo Hyuk-Rae stands dangerously on the ledge of the Han River Bridge. His actions are being captured by CCTV cameras. The CCTV images then captures his downfall and the people around him.

5.8

46 votes

5.8

46 votes

Antarctic Journal

2005 · Movie · 115 min. · South Korea

Direction Yim Pil-sung

Cast Song Kang-ho · Yoo Ji-tae · Park Hee-soon · Yoon Je-Moon

Synopsis 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...

5.5

140 votes

5.5

140 votes

Sink & Rise (S)

2003 · Movie · 7 min. · South Korea

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Byun Hee-bong · Jung In-sun · Yoon Je-Moon

Synopsis Under the Sungsan Bridge, in a waterside stand by the Han River, a poor and tired-looking mother and daughter, Jae-moon and In-sun, are arguing the generation gap over whether to buy boiled eggs or instant crackers.

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Memories in My Frame (S)

1994 · Movie · 5 min. · South Korea

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Synopsis A little boy comes home from school and hears his dog barking, or does he?

Not rated

Not rated

White Man (S)

1994 · Movie · 18 min. · South Korea

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Kim Roe-ha · Ahn Nae-sang

Synopsis The story of one man's unusual reaction to discovering a severed index while on his way to work.

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Direction Bong Joon-ho

Synopsis Deals with the drama that arises between deep sea creatures and human beings.

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Phantom: The Submarine

1999 · Movie · 110 min. · South Korea

Direction Min Byeong-cheon

Cast Choi_Min-soo · Jeong Woo-seong · Sul Kyoung-gu · Byeon-chul Min

Synopsis Phantom...Korea's first nuclear submarine. Armed with nuclear weapons and a crew with no record of existence, it embarks on a do-or-die mission into the deep waters of the Pacific.

Not rated

Not rated