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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The lives of 4 interconnected South Koreans - a married couple, a novelist the wife is having an aff...
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After a breakup, a young woman goes to a mountain resort on vacation and falls for a married policem...
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When filmmaker Young-soo introduces writer Soo-jung to his friend Jae-hoon, he unintentionally creat...
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After being rejected for a film role, a stage actor leaves Seoul to visit a friend and, in his trave...
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As the first snow falls in Seoul, two old friends reunite; one is a successful college professor, an...
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In Seoul, a suicidal student meets a young woman who decides to join him in his fatal gesture. Dongs...
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A movie director entices his young friend to come to the beach on the pretext of writing a script. H...
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Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arriv...
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A South Korean art house film director is first invited to serve on the panel of a film festival, th...
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Oki, a film student, gets involved in two relationships as she navigates the advances of a fellow st...
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A film director who no longer makes films arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend d...
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A young woman and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. T...
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Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 6...
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Facing her mother’s departure and the weight of a secret affair with her professor, college student ...
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Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters lef...
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By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lect...
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While a South Korean man wanders the city in search of the woman he just broke up with, she successi...
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On her first day at work, Areum replaces a woman who broke up with the boss. The wife of the boss fi...
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In a foreign city, an actress wanders through a seaside town, reflecting on her relationship with a ...
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On a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival, Manhee is accused of being dishonest, and fired. A t...
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An aging poet summons his estranged sons to the hotel he is staying at because he feels his death is...
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While her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends. She visits the first two...
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Youngho is summoned by his father, who is a doctor. Finding him busy with his patients, one of whom ...
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She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
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| 1 | The Novelist's Film (2022) | Director / Writer | 2 | |
| 2 | Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay (2021) | Director / Writer | 1 | |
| 3 | Introduction (2021) | Director / Writer | 2 | |
| 4 | In Front of Your Face (2021) | Director / Writer | 5.5 | |
| 5 | The Woman Who Ran (2020) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 6 | Hotel by the River (2019) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 7 | Claire's Camera (2018) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 8 | The Day After (2017) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 9 | On the Beach at Night Alone (2017) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 10 | Yourself and Yours (2016) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 11 | Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 12 | Hill of Freedom (2014) | Director / Writer | 1 | |
| 13 | Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 14 | Our Sunhi (2013) | Director / Writer | 4.5 | |
| 15 | Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 16 | In Another Country (2012) | Director / Writer | 5.3 | |
| 17 | The Day He Arrives (2011) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 18 | Ha Ha Ha (2010) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 19 | Oki's Movie (2010) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 20 | Like You Know It All (2009) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 21 | Night and Day (2008) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 22 | Woman on the Beach (2006) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 23 | Tale of Cinema (2005) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 24 | Woman Is the Future of Man (2004) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 25 | On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 26 | Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 27 | The Power of Kangwon Province (1998) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 28 | The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996) | Director / Writer | 3 |

