Hong Sangsoo

I. Introduction

Hong Sang Soo is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.

II. Career

Hong's parents owned the film production company Cinetel Soul. Hong took the entrance exam and entered the theater department at Chung-Ang University in South Korea. He then studied in the United States where he received his bachelor's degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts and his master's at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Hong made his directorial debut at age 35 with The Day a Pig Fell into the Well in 1996. Woman is the Future of Man (2004) was his first film to screen in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

Hong's films have also screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, and the Locarno Film Festival.

III. Filmography

Year	Poster	Title
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
2010		Hahaha
2010		Oki's Movie
2011		The Day He Arrives
2012		In Another Country
2013		Nobody's Daughter Haewon
2013		Our Sunhi
2014		Hill of Freedom
2015		Right Now, Wrong Then
2016		Yourself and Yours
2017		On the Beach at Night Alone
2017		Claire's Camera
2017		The Day After
2018		Grass
2018		Hotel by the River
2020		The Woman Who Ran
2021		Introduction
2021		In Front of Your Face

IV. Awards