Hong Sang-soo
Directing
Awards
Won 1 Blue Dragon Film Award for Best New Director Award
Blue Dragon Film Award for Best New Director 1 won
- 1996 Best New Director Won
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Hong Sang-soo (born October 25, 1960) is a South Korean writer-director. He has directed 35 films as of 2026.
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.
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Filmography
Directing
44 credits
The Day She Returns
Tale of Cinema
The Woman Who Ran
A Traveler's Needs
Woman Is the Future of Man
Claire's Camera
On the Beach at Night Alone
Right Now, Wrong Then
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
The Novelist's Film
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
In Another Country
What Does That Nature Say to You
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
Oki's Movie
Hill of Freedom
Our Sunhi
By the Stream
Woman on the Beach
In Our Day
Hotel by the River
Night and Day
Like You Know It All
In Front of Your Face
Yourself and Yours
Walk Up
The Power of Kangwon Province
Grass
Introduction
The Day He Arrives
Ha Ha Ha
Small Flower
In Water
The Day After
Nowhere to Lay My Eyes
List
Lost in the Mountains
Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
It Snows on You
Tree Above Volvo
Letter to the New York Film Festival
Greetings for the New York Film Festival
Writing
43 credits
The Day She Returns
Tale of Cinema
The Woman Who Ran
A Traveler's Needs
Woman Is the Future of Man
Claire's Camera
On the Beach at Night Alone
Right Now, Wrong Then
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
The Novelist's Film
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
In Another Country
What Does That Nature Say to You
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
Oki's Movie
Hill of Freedom
Our Sunhi
By the Stream
Woman on the Beach
In Our Day
Hotel by the River
Night and Day
Like You Know It All
In Front of Your Face
Yourself and Yours
Walk Up
The Power of Kangwon Province
Grass
Introduction
The Day He Arrives
Ha Ha Ha
Small Flower
In Water
The Day After
Nowhere to Lay My Eyes
List
Lost in the Mountains
Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
Tree Above Volvo
Letter to the New York Film Festival
Greetings for the New York Film Festival
Producing
30 credits
The Day She Returns
Tale of Cinema
The Woman Who Ran
A Traveler's Needs
Claire's Camera
On the Beach at Night Alone
The Novelist's Film
In Another Country
What Does That Nature Say to You
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
Oki's Movie
Hill of Freedom
Our Sunhi
By the Stream
In Our Day
Hotel by the River
In Front of Your Face
Yourself and Yours
Walk Up
Grass
Introduction
The Day He Arrives
Ha Ha Ha
Small Flower
In Water
The Day After
Nowhere to Lay My Eyes
List
Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
Letter to the New York Film Festival
Other credits
16 credits
The Day She Returns
The Woman Who Ran
A Traveler's Needs
The Novelist's Film
What Does That Nature Say to You
By the Stream
In Our Day
In Front of Your Face
Walk Up
Introduction
Small Flower
In Water
The Day After
Nowhere to Lay My Eyes
Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
Letter to the New York Film Festival
Acting
8 credits
The Day She Returns
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
The Novelist's Film
What Does That Nature Say to You
Nowhere to Lay My Eyes
The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema
Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
It Snows on You
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