Hong Sang-soo

Hong Sang-soo

October 25, 1960 · 65 years old

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, a…

Known For

20 titles
1
Right Now, Wrong Then

Right Now, Wrong Then

2015 · 2h 1m · Movie

A married film director falls for a young painter - twice.

7.1
2
On the Beach at Night Alone

On the Beach at Night Alone

2017 · 1h 41m · Movie

An actress wanders around a seaside town, pondering her relationship with a married man.

6.8
3
The Woman Who Ran

The Woman Who Ran

2020 · 1h 17m · Movie

While her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends on the outskirts of Seoul. They make friendly conversation but there are different currents flowing independently of each other, both above and below the s...

6.7
4
In Another Country

In Another Country

2012 · 1h 29m · Movie

A three-tiered story centered on a trio of French tourists visiting the same seaside resort.

6.4
5
The Day He Arrives

The Day He Arrives

2011 · 1h 19m · Movie

A professor in the film department at a provincial university goes to Seoul to meet his senior, who works as a film critic, and stays in a northern Seoul village for three days.

7.0
6
Claire's Camera

Claire's Camera

2018 · 1h 9m · Movie

The story of female friendship as Frenchwoman Claire helps the subject of her photograph, Min-Hee, discover why she was fired without apparent cause.

6.4
7
Tale of Cinema

Tale of Cinema

2005 · 1h 29m · Movie

In Seoul, a suicidal student meets a young woman who decides to join him in his fatal gesture. Tongsu, an unsuccessful filmmaker, spots a beautiful young woman, who happens to be the lead actress in the film he has just seen.

6.9
8
Woman Is the Future of Man

Woman Is the Future of Man

2004 · 1h 28m · Movie

Two college friends get together and reminisce on the woman they both fell in love with at different times in their past, and are thus propelled to find her.

6.4
9
Nobody's Daughter Haewon

Nobody's Daughter Haewon

2013 · 1h 30m · Movie

The secret relationship between a student and a teacher, will their love last?

6.7
10
Hotel by the River

Hotel by the River

2019 · 1h 36m · Movie

In the middle of winter, a poet invites his son to meet him at a hotel.

6.7
11
Yourself and Yours

Yourself and Yours

2016 · 1h 26m · Movie

A foray into the uncanny with a spin on Luis Buñuel's "That Obscure Object of Desire".

6.8
12
Hill of Freedom

Hill of Freedom

2014 · 1h 6m · Movie

Kwon returns to Seoul from the mountains and is given a packet of letters from Mori back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the undated letters. She reads them and has to make sense of the chronology - and so mu...

6.9
13
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors

Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors

2000 · 2h 6m · Movie

Relationship filled with pitfalls between a pleasant female video producer and a gallery owner as they become embroiled in their self-spun web of illusions. Bitter-sweet serenade to modern courtship.

6.9
14
Hahaha

Hahaha

2010 · 1h 55m · Movie

Two friends, while having drinks together, share their memories of visiting the seaside resort of Tongyeong.

6.8
15
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate

On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate

2002 · 1h 55m · Movie

Actor Kyung Soo leaves Seoul to visit an old classmate. The reunion with his friend does not amount to much, but the trip does lead to some romantic encounters. He gets involved with two women, first a young college student whom h...

7.3
16
The Novelist's Film

The Novelist's Film

2022 · 1h 32m · Movie

A novelist visits a bookstore run by a young colleague who's been out of touch, then takes a walk with a film director and his wife. She meets an actress and tries to convince her to make a film together.

6.8
17
In Front of Your Face

In Front of Your Face

2021 · 1h 25m · Movie

She manages her daily life with a sense of mindfulness while keeping a grave secret to herself, and she decides to meet with a younger director who asked her to join his project, and after they meet there is sudden rainfall and th...

7.0
18
Woman on the Beach

Woman on the Beach

2006 · 2h 7m · Movie

A movie director entices his young friend to come to the beach on the pretext of writing a script. He then starts an affair with the friend's girlfriend.

6.8
19
Our Sunhi

Our Sunhi

2013 · 1h 28m · Movie

A young woman returning to her old school to visit her professor also runs into her old boyfriend and her senior, each of whom has a past with her.

6.7
20
Night and Day

Night and Day

2008 · 2h 24m · Movie

In the summer of 2007 a painter in his forties travels to Paris to escape arrest for smoking marijuana, leaving his wife behind in Korea. While there he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.

7.1
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