Hong Sang-soo
Biography
Hong Sang-soo (born October 25, 1960) is a South Korean writer-director. He has directed 33 films as of 2025. Certain elements are commonly found in Hong's films. A typical Hong film highlights a theme of domestic realism with many of the scenes set on residential streets, cafes, hotels, schools, and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Characters are seen walking around the city, drinking soju, and having sex. The main characters are often movie directors or actors, and scenes typically consist of a single shot, often beginning and ending with a camera zoom. The budgets for his movies average about $100,000. Hong is often spontaneous when shooting, delivering the day's scene on the morning of the shoot and frequently changing stories while on set. He rarely prepares scripts in advance. Hong's style has been compared to Eric Rohmer's, and it has even been argued that allusions to Rohmer's films appear in some films directed by Hong.
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Movies (45)
Tree Above Volvo
Director (Directing)
2025
What Does That Nature Say to You
Director (Directing)
2025
It Snows on You
2024
By the Stream
Director (Directing)
2024
A Traveler's Needs
Producer (Production)
2024
Greetings for the New York Film Festival
Director (Directing)
2023
In Our Day
Director of Photography (Camera)
2023
Small Flower
Editor (Editing)
2023
In Water
Music (Sound)
2023
Walk Up
Director (Directing)
2022
The Novelist's Film
Writer (Writing)
2022
In Front of Your Face
Director (Directing)
2021
Letter to the New York Film Festival
Producer (Production)
2021
Introduction
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2021
Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
as Narrator (Voice)
2021
The Woman Who Ran
Director (Directing)
2020
Hotel by the River
Director (Directing)
2019
Grass
Director (Directing)
2018
Claire's Camera
Director (Directing)
2018
The Day After
Music (Sound)
2017
On the Beach at Night Alone
Director (Directing)
2017
Yourself and Yours
Director (Directing)
2016
Right Now, Wrong Then
Writer (Writing)
2015
Hill of Freedom
Director (Directing)
2014
Our Sunhi
Writer (Writing)
2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Writer (Writing)
2013
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
Director (Directing)
2013
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
as Himself
2012
In Another Country
Screenplay (Writing)
2012
List
Director (Directing)
2011
The Day He Arrives
Director (Directing)
2011
Oki's Movie
Director (Directing)
2010
Ha Ha Ha
Director (Directing)
2010
Visitors
Director (Directing)
2009
Lost in the Mountains
Director (Directing)
2009
Like You Know It All
Director (Directing)
2009
Night and Day
Director (Directing)
2008
Woman on the Beach
Director (Directing)
2006
The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema
as Himself
2005
Tale of Cinema
Director (Directing)
2005
Woman Is the Future of Man
Director (Directing)
2004
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
Writer (Writing)
2002
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
Director (Directing)
2000
The Power of Kangwon Province
Director (Directing)
1998
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
Director (Directing)
1996