Profile | プロフィール
Born / 生年月日
September 14, 1969 | Daegu, South Korea
Age / 年齢
55 years old (as of 2025)
Occupation / 職業
Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer
映画監督、脚本家、プロデューサー
Nationality / 国籍
South Korean (韓国)
Biography | 経歴
[English] Note: Bong Joon-ho is one of the most formally accomplished, most politically serious, and most consistently significant directors working anywhere in world cinema—a filmmaker whose specific combination of the sociological imagination, the capacity for the most demanding tonal complexity, the ability to conduct rigorous social analysis within the formal constraints of popular genre cinema, and the specific quality of humane political engagement that never loses sight of the individual human beings whose stories it tells, has produced a body of work that, taken in its entirety, is one of the most important contributions to world cinema of the past quarter-century. Parasite is the greatest Korean film ever made and one of the greatest films of the twenty-first century—a work whose formal achievement, whose political seriousness, and whose devastating emotional truth place it in the company of the finest achievements in the history of cinema. And its Academy Award sweep—the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture in ninety-two years, the first Korean director to win Best Director—was not merely a personal triumph but a cultural and historical event whose implications for the landscape of global cinema are still being worked out. He is, without qualification, one of the most important directors working in the world today.
[日本語] ポン・ジュノは、現代の世界映画界において、最も形式美を極め、最も政治的に誠実であり、そして最も一貫して重要な足跡を残し続けている監督の一人です。
社会学的な想像力、極めて複雑なトーンを制御する巧みな手腕、そして大衆ジャンル映画という制約の中で厳密な社会分析を完遂する能力。これらに加え、物語の核心である「個々の人間」の存在を決して見失わない人道的な政治的関与の精神。これらが分かちがたく結びついた彼の作品群は、過去4半世紀における世界映画への最も重要な貢献の一つと言えるでしょう。
なかでも『パラサイト 半地下の家族』は、韓国映画史上最高傑作であるのみならず、21世紀の映画界を代表する一本です。その形式的な達成度、政治的な真摯さ、そして胸を抉るような感情の真実は、映画史に燦然と輝く至高の傑作群と肩を並べるものです。
また、アカデミー賞における快挙――92年の歴史で初となる非英語作品の作品賞受賞、そして韓国人初の監督賞受賞――は、単なる個人の勝利に留まりません。それは世界映画の勢力図を塗り替える歴史的・文化的な事件であり、その影響は今なお広がり続けています。彼は疑いようもなく、今日の世界で最も重要な映画作家の一人なのです。
Filmography | 監督作品
Feature Films as Director (監督長編作品)
| Year | Title (Korean / English / Japanese) | Awards/Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 플란다스의 개 / Barking Dogs Never Bite / バーキング・ドッグス・ネバー・バイト | Debut feature / Dark comedy / Seoul apartment life |
| 2003 | 살인의 추억 / Memories of Murder / 殺人の追憶 | Korean box office record (2003) / Multiple Korean Film Awards 🏆 / True crime / Hwaseong serial murders / Song Kang-ho / Institutional failure / Tonal masterwork |
| 2006 | 괴물 / The Host / グエムル—漢江の怪物— | Korean all-time box office record (2006) / Monster film / Family drama / Anti-American political satire / Song Kang-ho |
| 2009 | 마더 / Mother / 母なる証明 | Cannes Un Certain Regard 🏆 / Kim Hye-ja / One of greatest Korean performances ever / Maternal obsession |
| 2013 | 설국열차 / Snowpiercer / スノーピアサー | Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris / First English-language film / Class hierarchy as spatial metaphor / French graphic novel adaptation |
| 2017 | 옥자 / Okja / オクジャ | Cannes Competition 🌟 / Netflix / Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal / Factory farming critique / Ahn Seo-hyun |
| 2019 | 기생충 / Parasite / パラサイト 半地下の家族 | Cannes Palme d’Or 🏆 (first Korean film) / Oscar Best Picture 🏆 (first non-English-language film in 92-year history) / Oscar Best Director 🏆 / Oscar Best Original Screenplay 🏆 / Oscar Best International Feature Film 🏆 / BAFTA Best Film 🏆 / Golden Globe Best Foreign Language Film 🏆 / Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong / Class satire / Greatest Korean film ever made |
| 2025 | Mickey 17 / ミッキー17 | Robert Pattinson / Steven Yeun / Toni Collette / Science fiction / Edward Ashton novel adaptation |
Short Films and Other Work
| Year | Title | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | White Man (백색인) | KAFA short |
| 1995 | Incoherence (지리멸렬) | KAFA short |
| 2004 | Influenza | Short documentary / Commission |
| 2008 | Shaking Tokyo | Segment of omnibus film Tokyo! / With Michel Gondry and Leos Carax |
Awards & Recognition | 受賞歴
Academy Awards (アカデミー賞)
Winner: 4 🏆 — for Parasite (2020)
- Best Picture 🏆 — first non-English-language film to win in the award’s 92-year history
- Best Director 🏆 — first Korean director to win
- Best Original Screenplay 🏆
- Best International Feature Film 🏆
Cannes Film Festival (カンヌ映画祭)
- Palme d’Or – Parasite (2019) 🏆 — first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or
BAFTA Awards
- Best Film – Parasite (2020) 🏆
- Best Film Not in the English Language – Parasite (2020) 🏆
- Best Original Screenplay – Parasite (2020) 🏆
Golden Globe Awards
- Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language – Parasite (2020) 🏆
- Best Director – Parasite (2020) 🏆 (historically unusual for a foreign-language film)
Screen Actors Guild Awards
- Parasite — Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture 🏆
Korean Film Awards (大鐘賞・青龍映画賞)
- Multiple major Korean domestic film awards across career 🏆
- Memories of Murder — major domestic recognition 🏆
- The Host — major domestic recognition 🏆
- Parasite — multiple major domestic awards 🏆
Other Honours
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association — Best Director, Best Film (Parasite) 🏆
- New York Film Critics Circle — Best Director, Best Film (Parasite) 🏆
- Consistent top-10 appearances in annual critical polls throughout career 🏆
Box Office Achievements | 興行成績
| Film | Korean Box Office | Worldwide |
|---|---|---|
| Parasite (2019) | ₩59.1 billion | $266.2 million |
| The Host (2006) | ₩119 billion (Korean record at release) | $89.1 million |
| Snowpiercer (2013) | ₩30.3 billion | $86.8 million |
| Memories of Murder (2003) | ₩31.1 billion | $5.6 million |
| Mother (2009) | ₩25.4 billion | $5.3 million |
