Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite picked up the coveted Best Film and Best Director awards at this year’s Oscars – the first foreign-language film to ever do so. Its historic win is the perfect excuse to get stuck into genre-bending and exciting Korean cinema.
Parasite, the South Korean film directed by Bong Joon-ho, received four Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film.
It was an historic moment. Parasite is the first non-English-language movie to win a Best Picture Oscar, earning it an eminent place in the 100-year history of Korean film.
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Bong has an abiding interest in social issues of Korean society. He began to attract attention with his first major feature film, Memories of Murder (2003), based on the true story of several unsolved murders in the 1980s that plagued a small Korean rural community.
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