Joon-ho Bong

  • Joon-ho Bong – Salinui chueok AKA Memories of Murder (2003)

    Joon-ho Bong2001-2010DramaSouth KoreaThriller
    Salinui chueok (2003)
    Salinui chueok (2003)

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

  • Joon-ho Bong – Snowpiercer (2013)

    Joon-ho Bong2011-2020ActionSci-FiSouth Korea

    Summary: In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.Read More »

  • Joon-ho Bong, Leos Carax & Michel Gondry – Tokyo! (2008)

    Drama2001-2010FranceJoon-ho BongLeos CaraxMichel Gondry

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    This triptych of tales set in the titular city of Tokyo suggests an Eastern version of NEW YORK STORIES, but there is a significant difference: in this case, none of the three writer-directors (two French and one Korean) are natives; consequently, their short films emerge less as love letters to the city than as skewed points of view from outsiders looking in on what what they consider to be a strange, exotic land, bordering on a freak show. With their surreal touches, fanciful symbolism, and at least one outright refernce to Japanese kaiju cinema, TOKYO! emerges as a boderline genre effort – not quite a fantasy film but definitely a curious piece of cinefantatique. Unfortunately, the weirdness is not always entertaining – in some cases it is merely boring – but there is enough going on to make this interesting for fans of art house cinema.Read More »

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