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Hong Sang-soo
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.
As director
The Day She Returns
What Does That Nature Say to You
Tree Above Volvo
A Traveler's Needs
By the Stream
It Snows on You
Greetings for the New York Film Festival
In Water
In Our Day
Walk Up
The Novelist's Film
Small Flower
In Front of Your Face
Letter to the New York Film Festival
Introduction
Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
The Woman Who Ran
Hotel by the River
Claire's Camera
Grass
On the Beach at Night Alone
The Day After
Yourself and Yours
Right Now, Wrong Then
Hill of Freedom
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
Our Sunhi
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
In Another Country
The Day He Arrives
