With Parasite's historic win at the 92nd Academy Awards, people are more curious about its gregarious director Bong Joon-Ho and his previous movies. While only coming to Hollywood in the mid-2000s, the filmmaker has been building an impressive body of work since before then. Here's how you can watch some of his most notable movies online.
The 50-year-old director has a relatively shorter resume compared to his peers. Despite that, a majority of his movies are critically-acclaimed, culminating to his latest film - Parasite. Prior to the 2020 Oscars, Parasite was already garnering positive buzz after it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. Parasite went on to nab various accolades throughout the award season leading to its four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Joon-ho.
Aside from Parasite, Bong Joon-ho has directed six movies since the year 2000, two of which general audiences may recognize in the United States due to their releases. Here's how to watch all six movies online - other than Parasite, which still hasn't been released online.
Bong Joon-ho had already written a couple movies before he debuted as a director in Barking Dogs Never Bite. A dark comedy revolving around the unemployed college lecturer Go Yun-ju's (Lee Sung-Jae) struggle with the noisy dogs at his apartment complex. He attempt kidnapping them which makes for some hilarious moments. The film also stars Joon-ho's frequent collaborator Bae Doo-Na as Park Hyun-Nam. The movie didn't arrive in the U.S. until 2009, and now fans can stream it for free on Tubi and Shudder with a subscription; and available to rent on Amazon for $3.99 and Vudu for $2.99.
In 2003, Bong Joon-ho would work with Song Kang-Ho for the first time in Memories of Murder. The South Korean crime drama is based on the true story of the country's first documented serial murders, which took place between 1986 and 1991 in Hwaesong, Gyeonggi Province. Song stars as Detective Park, and is joined by Kim Sang-Kyung as Detective Seo who attempt to solve the string of crimes. Memoirs of Murder can be streamed for free on Popcornflix.
Bong Joon-ho takes on a monster film in The Host, which focuses on a mysterious monster created after an American military pathologist orders his South Korean deputy to dump 200 bottles of formaldehyde down a drain leading to the Han River. Years later, the creature emerges, kidnapping a man's daughter. The film reunited Bong Joon-ho with Song and Bae. It became a massive hit in South Korea, and was named by Quentin Tarantino as a "masterpiece, together with Memories of Murder. The Host is available to rent for $2.99 on Amazon Prime Video.
With an impressive portfolio, many expected Bong Joon-ho to finally make the jump to Hollywood; instead, he stayed on track with an even smaller and more personal narrative. The incredible Kim Hye-ja stars as the titular Mother in the film, whose goal is to protect his intellectually challenged son, Yoon Do-joon (Won Bin). The son gets accused of murder and mother does everything in her power to prove his innocence. Mother goes through a series of plots twists and turns, but the dramatic beats makes it the critical darling that it became. Rent it on Amazon and Apple TV for $3.99 or Vudu for $2.99.
In 2013, Bong Joon-ho finally made the jump to Hollywood with his first English-language movie via the sci-fi action film Snowpiercer, which was universally praised when it was released. Based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, and Jean-Marc Rochette, it stars Chris Evans as the lead Curtis, alongside Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris, John Hurt, and Go Ah-sung. Snowpiercer also marked the third film collaboration between Joon-ho and Song Kang-ho. It's available to stream on Netflix, and can also be rented on Amazon and Google Play for $3.99.
Bong teams up with Netflix for this action-adventure movie about a girl played by South Korean actress Ahn-Seo-hyun, who raises a genetically altered super pig. This is Bong Joon-ho's first directed, written (co-written by Jon Ronson), and produced movie. Okja boasts a star-studded cast, including Byun Hee-bong (who is also Bong Joon-ho's frequent collaborator), Yoon Je-moon, and Parasite's Choi Woo Sik. Meanwhile, its Hollywood ensemble includes Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Lilly Collins, Giancarlo Epsosito, and Korean-American star Steven Yeun. It's available to stream on Netflix.
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