Hong Sang-soo

Infobox Korean name
hangul=홍상수
hanja=洪尚秀
rr=Hong Sang-su
mr=Hong Sangsu|

Hong Sang-soo (born October 25, 1960 in Seoul) is a contemporary and highly-regarded Korean film director. Hong's directorial debut, "The Day a Pig Fell into the Well" (1996), was praised by South Korean critics for its originality and won international film prizes. [cite book |last=Min|first=Eung-jun|coathors=Joo Jin-sook and Kwak Han-ju|title=Korean Film; History, Resistance, and Democratic Imagination|year=2003|publisher=Praeger Publishers|location=Westport, Connecticut and London|language=English|isbn=0-275-95811-6|pages=p.142|chapter=5. Discourses of Modernity and Postmodernity in Contemporary Korean Cinema]

Filmography

* "The Day the Pig Fell into the Well" (1996)
* "The Power of Kangwon Province" (1998)
* "Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors" (2000)
* "On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate" (2002)
* "Woman Is the Future of Man" (2004)
* "Tale of Cinema" (2005)
* "Woman on the Beach" (2006)
* "Night and Day" (2008)

Notes

ee also

* Contemporary culture of South Korea
* Korean cinema
* Korean literature
* List of Korean language films

External links

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* [http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue4/unsexy.html Essay about sexuality in his films]
* [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/04/33/woman_future_man.html Essay @ Sensesofcinema.com]
* [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/lets-not-turn-into-monsters-okay-the-films-of-hong-sang-soo.htm The Films of Hong Sang-soo] - Stylus Magazine article

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