Hong Sang-soo
Directing
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.
Directed (43)
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
