FILM DIRECTOR

Bong Joon-ho

1969 - Today

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Bong Joon-ho (Korean: 봉준호, Korean pronunciation: [poːŋ tɕuːnho → poːŋdʑunɦo]; Hanja: 奉俊昊; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean film director, producer and screenwriter. The recipient of three Academy Awards, his filmography is characterised by emphasis on social and class themes, genre-mixing, black humor, and sudden tone shifts.He first became known to audiences and achieved a cult following with his directorial debut film, the black comedy Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), before achieving both critical and commercial success with his subsequent films: the crime thriller Memories of Murder (2003), the monster film The Host (2006), the science fiction action film Snowpiercer (2013), which served as Bong's English language debut, and the near-universally acclaimed black comedy thriller Parasite (2019), all of which are among the highest-grossing films in South Korea, with Parasite also being the highest-grossing South Korean film in history.All of Bong's films have been South Korean productions, although both Snowpiercer and Okja (2017) are mostly in the English language. Two of his films have screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival—Okja in 2017 and Parasite in 2019; the latter earned the Palme d'Or, which was a first for a South Korean film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bong Joon-ho has received more than 8,161,825 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Bong Joon-ho is the 420th most popular film director (down from 344th in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from South Korea (down from 86th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South Korean Film Director.

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  • 8.2M

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  • 55.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bong Joon-hos by language

Over the past year Bong Joon-ho has had the most page views in the with 756,362 views, followed by Italian (85,642), and French (84,606). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Wu Chinese (290.78%), Malagasy (93.64%), and Latvian (75.48%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Bong Joon-ho ranks 420 out of 2,041. Before him are Sergiu Nicolaescu, M. Night Shyamalan, J. J. Abrams, Aleksandar Petrović, Merian C. Cooper, and Claude Zidi. After him are Lo Wei, Édouard Molinaro, Richard Brooks, Michael Anderson, Taylor Hackford, and Jean Eustache.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Bong Joon-ho ranks 59. Before him are Vítor Baía, Brian Laudrup, Petteri Orpo, Julia Ann, Triple H, and Giorgi Margvelashvili. After him are Robert Miles, Hong Myung-bo, Oleg Salenko, Thomas Vinterberg, Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, and Marc Wilmots.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Bong Joon-ho ranks 109 out of 1,128. Before him are Choi Eun-hee (1926), Kim Ung-yong (1963), Ye Wanyong (1858), Kim Seok-jin (1992), RM (1994), and Byung-Chul Han (1959). After him are Son Heung-min (1992), Hong Myung-bo (1969), Kim Seong-su (1891), Andrew Yeom Soo-jung (1943), Goh Kun (1938), and IU (1993).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In South Korea

Among film directors born in South Korea, Bong Joon-ho ranks 2. Before him are Kim Ki-duk (1960). After him are Lee Chang-dong (1954), Im Kwon-taek (1936), Hong Sang-soo (1960), Kim Ki-young (1919), Kim Jee-woon (1964), Kwak Jae-yong (1959), Hwang Dong-hyuk (1971), Yeon Sang-ho (1978), Lee Cheol-ha (1970), and Na Hong-jin (1974).

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Filmography

Parasite
Director
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
May 30o 20198.512 / 10
Okja
Director
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
Jun 28o 20177.381 / 10
Snowpiercer
Director
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.
Aug 1o 20136.903 / 10