A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
HSS
Hong Sang-su
Hong Sangsoo
Hong Sangsu
Sang-Su Hong
Sang-soo Hong
Сан-су Хон
Хон Сан-су
洪尚秀
洪常秀
홍상수
Birthplace:
Seoul, South Korea
Born:
October 25, 1960
Hong Sang-soo (born October 25, 1960) is a South Korean writer-director. He has directed 30 films as of 2023. 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.
Cinematography:
2024 It Snows on You
Director:
1996 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1998 The Power of Kangwon Province
2000 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
2002 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
2004 Woman Is the Future of Man
2005 Tale of Cinema
2006 Woman on the Beach
2008 Night and Day
2009 Like You Know It All
2009 Lost in the Mountains
2009 Visitors
2010 Ha Ha Ha
2010 Oki's Movie
2011 List
2011 The Day He Arrives
2012 In Another Country
2013 Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
2013 Our Sunhi
2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2014 Hill of Freedom
2015 Right Now, Wrong Then
2016 Yourself and Yours
2017 On the Beach at Night Alone
2017 The Day After
2018 Claire's Camera
2018 Grass
2019 Hotel by the River
2020 The Woman Who Ran
2021 Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
2021 In Front of Your Face
2021 Introduction
2021 Letter to the New York Film Festival
2022 The Novelist's Film
2022 Walk Up
2023 Greetings for the New York Film Festival
2023 In Our Day
2023 In Water
2023 Small Flower
2024 A Traveler's Needs
2024 By the Stream
2024 It Snows on You
2025 What Does That Nature Say to You
Director of Photography:
1996 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1998 The Power of Kangwon Province
2000 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
2002 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
2004 Woman Is the Future of Man
2005 Tale of Cinema
2006 Woman on the Beach
2008 Night and Day
2009 Like You Know It All
2009 Lost in the Mountains
2009 Visitors
2010 Ha Ha Ha
2010 Oki's Movie
2011 List
2011 The Day He Arrives
2012 In Another Country
2013 Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
2013 Our Sunhi
2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2014 Hill of Freedom
2015 Right Now, Wrong Then
2016 Yourself and Yours
2017 On the Beach at Night Alone
2017 The Day After
2018 Claire's Camera
2018 Grass
2019 Hotel by the River
2020 The Woman Who Ran
2021 Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
2021 In Front of Your Face
2021 Introduction
2021 Letter to the New York Film Festival
2022 The Novelist's Film
2022 Walk Up
2023 Greetings for the New York Film Festival
2023 In Our Day
2023 In Water
2023 Small Flower
2024 A Traveler's Needs
2024 By the Stream
2024 It Snows on You
2025 What Does That Nature Say to You
Editor:
1996 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1998 The Power of Kangwon Province
2000 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
2002 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
2004 Woman Is the Future of Man
2005 Tale of Cinema
2006 Woman on the Beach
2008 Night and Day
2009 Like You Know It All
2009 Lost in the Mountains
2009 Visitors
2010 Ha Ha Ha
2010 Oki's Movie
2011 List
2011 The Day He Arrives
2012 In Another Country
2013 Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
2013 Our Sunhi
2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2014 Hill of Freedom
2015 Right Now, Wrong Then
2016 Yourself and Yours
2017 On the Beach at Night Alone
2017 The Day After
2018 Claire's Camera
2018 Grass
2019 Hotel by the River
2020 The Woman Who Ran
2021 Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
2021 In Front of Your Face
2021 Introduction
2021 Letter to the New York Film Festival
2022 The Novelist's Film
2022 Walk Up
2023 Greetings for the New York Film Festival
2023 In Our Day
2023 In Water
2023 Small Flower
2024 A Traveler's Needs
2024 By the Stream
2024 It Snows on You
2025 What Does That Nature Say to You
Executive Producer:
1996 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1998 The Power of Kangwon Province
2000 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
2002 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
2004 Woman Is the Future of Man
2005 Tale of Cinema
2006 Woman on the Beach
2008 Night and Day
2009 Like You Know It All
2009 Lost in the Mountains
2009 Visitors
2010 Ha Ha Ha
2010 Oki's Movie
2011 List
2011 The Day He Arrives
2012 In Another Country
2013 Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
2013 Our Sunhi
2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2014 Hill of Freedom
2015 Right Now, Wrong Then
2016 Yourself and Yours
2017 On the Beach at Night Alone
2017 The Day After
2018 Claire's Camera
2018 Grass
2019 Hotel by the River
2020 The Woman Who Ran
2021 Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
2021 In Front of Your Face
2021 Introduction
2021 Letter to the New York Film Festival
2022 The Novelist's Film
2022 Walk Up
2023 Greetings for the New York Film Festival
2023 In Our Day
2023 In Water
2023 Small Flower
2024 A Traveler's Needs
2024 By the Stream
2024 It Snows on You
2025 What Does That Nature Say to You
Music:
1996 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1998 The Power of Kangwon Province
2000 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
2002 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
2004 Woman Is the Future of Man
2005 Tale of Cinema
2006 Woman on the Beach
2008 Night and Day
2009 Like You Know It All
2009 Lost in the Mountains
2009 Visitors
2010 Ha Ha Ha
2010 Oki's Movie
2011 List
2011 The Day He Arrives
2012 In Another Country
2013 Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
2013 Our Sunhi
2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2014 Hill of Freedom
2015 Right Now, Wrong Then
2016 Yourself and Yours
2017 On the Beach at Night Alone
2017 The Day After
2018 Claire's Camera
2018 Grass
2019 Hotel by the River
2020 The Woman Who Ran
2021 Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
2021 In Front of Your Face
2021 Introduction
2021 Letter to the New York Film Festival
2022 The Novelist's Film
2022 Walk Up
2023 Greetings for the New York Film Festival
2023 In Our Day
2023 In Water
2023 Small Flower
2024 A Traveler's Needs
2024 By the Stream
2024 It Snows on You
2025 What Does That Nature Say to You
Original Music Composer:
1996 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1998 The Power of Kangwon Province
2000 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
2002 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
2004 Woman Is the Future of Man
2005 Tale of Cinema
2006 Woman on the Beach
2008 Night and Day
2009 Like You Know It All
2009 Lost in the Mountains
2009 Visitors
2010 Ha Ha Ha
2010 Oki's Movie
2011 List
2011 The Day He Arrives
2012 In Another Country
2013 Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
2013 Our Sunhi
2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2014 Hill of Freedom
2015 Right Now, Wrong Then
2016 Yourself and Yours
2017 On the Beach at Night Alone
2017 The Day After
2018 Claire's Camera
2018 Grass
2019 Hotel by the River
2020 The Woman Who Ran
2021 Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
2021 In Front of Your Face
2021 Introduction
2021 Letter to the New York Film Festival
2022 The Novelist's Film
2022 Walk Up
2023 Greetings for the New York Film Festival
2023 In Our Day
2023 In Water
2023 Small Flower
2024 A Traveler's Needs
2024 By the Stream
2024 It Snows on You
2025 What Does That Nature Say to You
Producer:
1996 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1998 The Power of Kangwon Province
2000 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
2002 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
2004 Woman Is the Future of Man
2005 Tale of Cinema
2006 Woman on the Beach
2008 Night and Day
2009 Like You Know It All
2009 Lost in the Mountains
2009 Visitors
2010 Ha Ha Ha
2010 Oki's Movie
2011 List
2011 The Day He Arrives
2012 In Another Country
2013 Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
2013 Our Sunhi
2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2014 Hill of Freedom
2015 Right Now, Wrong Then
2016 Yourself and Yours
2017 On the Beach at Night Alone
2017 The Day After
2018 Claire's Camera
2018 Grass
2019 Hotel by the River
2020 The Woman Who Ran
2021 Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
2021 In Front of Your Face
2021 Introduction
2021 Letter to the New York Film Festival
2022 The Novelist's Film
2022 Walk Up
2023 Greetings for the New York Film Festival
2023 In Our Day
2023 In Water
2023 Small Flower
2024 A Traveler's Needs
2024 By the Stream
2024 It Snows on You
2025 What Does That Nature Say to You
Screenplay:
1996 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1998 The Power of Kangwon Province
2000 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
2002 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
2004 Woman Is the Future of Man
2005 Tale of Cinema
2006 Woman on the Beach
2008 Night and Day
2009 Like You Know It All
2009 Lost in the Mountains
2009 Visitors
2010 Ha Ha Ha
2010 Oki's Movie
2011 List
2011 The Day He Arrives
2012 In Another Country
2013 Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
2013 Our Sunhi
2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2014 Hill of Freedom
2015 Right Now, Wrong Then
2016 Yourself and Yours
2017 On the Beach at Night Alone
2017 The Day After
2018 Claire's Camera
2018 Grass
2019 Hotel by the River
2020 The Woman Who Ran
2021 Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
2021 In Front of Your Face
2021 Introduction
2021 Letter to the New York Film Festival
2022 The Novelist's Film
2022 Walk Up
2023 Greetings for the New York Film Festival
2023 In Our Day
2023 In Water
2023 Small Flower
2024 A Traveler's Needs
2024 By the Stream
2024 It Snows on You
2025 What Does That Nature Say to You
Writer:
1996 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1998 The Power of Kangwon Province
2000 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
2002 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
2004 Woman Is the Future of Man
2005 Tale of Cinema
2006 Woman on the Beach
2008 Night and Day
2009 Like You Know It All
2009 Lost in the Mountains
2009 Visitors
2010 Ha Ha Ha
2010 Oki's Movie
2011 List
2011 The Day He Arrives
2012 In Another Country
2013 Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
2013 Our Sunhi
2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2014 Hill of Freedom
2015 Right Now, Wrong Then
2016 Yourself and Yours
2017 On the Beach at Night Alone
2017 The Day After
2018 Claire's Camera
2018 Grass
2019 Hotel by the River
2020 The Woman Who Ran
2021 Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
2021 In Front of Your Face
2021 Introduction
2021 Letter to the New York Film Festival
2022 The Novelist's Film
2022 Walk Up
2023 Greetings for the New York Film Festival
2023 In Our Day
2023 In Water
2023 Small Flower
2024 A Traveler's Needs
2024 By the Stream
2024 It Snows on You
2025 What Does That Nature Say to You
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