PARASITE
PARASITE

PARASITE

Director Joon-ho Bong

Production year 2019

Length 132min.

Country South Korea

SYNOPSIS

 

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes a peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

CAST & CREW

Joon-ho Bong
Joon-ho Bong

Director

Producer(s)

Joon-հo Bong, Yang-kwon Moon

Script

Won-han Jin, Joon-հo Bong

Director of Photography

Kyung-pyo Hong

Production designer

Ha-jun Lee

Music by

Jaeil Jung

Sound

Tae-young Choi

Edit

Jinmo Yang

Cast

Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo.

Joon-ho Bong

South Korean film director and screenwriter. His films include monster movie The Host (2006) and sci-fi action movie Snowpiercer (2013), both of which are among the highest-grossing films of all time in South Korea. He has had two films in competition at the Cannes Film Festival: Okja, which debuted at the 2017 Cannes FF, and Parasite, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes FF. He became the first Korean director to win the award. In 2017, Metacritic ranked Bong #13 on its list of the 25 best film directors of the 21st century. His films feature uncomfortable subject matter, black humor and sudden mood shifts.


Filmography

White Man (1994, short), Memories in My Frame (1994, short), Incoherence (1994, short), Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), Memories of Murder (2003), Twentidentity (segment Sink & Rise, 2003),  Digital Short Films by Three Directors (segment Influenza, 2004), The Host (2006), Tօkyo! (segment Shaking Tokyo, 2008), Mother (2009), 3.11 A Sense of Home (segment Iki, 2011), Snowpiercer (2013), Okja (2017), Parasite (2019).

FILMS 2019