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Born October 25, 1960 · Seoul, South Korea
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.

The Day She Returns
2026

Tree Above Volvo
2025

What Does That Nature Say to You
2025
It Snows on You
2024

By the Stream
2024

A Traveler's Needs
2024
Greetings for the New York Film Festival
2023

In Our Day
2023

In Water
2023

Walk Up
2022

Small Flower
2022

The Novelist's Film
2022

In Front of Your Face
2021

Letter to the New York Film Festival
2021

Introduction
2021

Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
2021

The Woman Who Ran
2020

Hotel by the River
2019

Grass
2018

Claire's Camera
2018

The Day After
2017

On the Beach at Night Alone
2017

Yourself and Yours
2016

Right Now, Wrong Then
2015

Hill of Freedom
2014

Our Sunhi
2013

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013

Nobody's Daughter Haewon
2013

In Another Country
2012

List
2011

The Day He Arrives
2011

Oki's Movie
2010

Ha Ha Ha
2010

Lost in the Mountains
2009

Like You Know It All
2009

Night and Day
2008

Woman on the Beach
2006

Tale of Cinema
2005

Woman Is the Future of Man
2004

On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
2002

Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
2000

The Power of Kangwon Province
1998

The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1996