Hong Sang-soo Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Hong Sang-soo Trailers
Total trailers found: 45
27 May 2021
Youngho is summoned by his father, who is a doctor. Finding him busy with his patients, one of whom is a famous actor, Youngho has to wait.
25 October 2018
Ahreum sits in a small café, typing on her laptop. Around her, customers enact various dramas from their lives.
04 September 2014
Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori, who has come back from Japan to propose to her.
17 September 2020
While her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends. She visits the first two at their homes, and the third she encounters by chance at a theater.
21 October 2021
She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day.
05 May 2004
As the first snow falls in Seoul, two old friends reunite; one is a successful college professor, and the other, a struggling filmmaker recently returned from the United States.
28 February 2008
Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.
15 February 2019
An aging poet summons his estranged sons to the hotel he is staying at because he feels his death is near; meanwhile, he encounters two women staying at the hotel.
22 March 2002
After being rejected for a film role, a stage actor leaves Seoul to visit a friend and, in his travels, winds up getting involved with two women.
06 May 2010
Over drinks, two friends agree to swap fond memories of their recent trips to the same seaside town. As the stories unfold in flashback, it becomes evident their accounts take place at the same time and with the same people.
08 September 2011
A film director who no longer makes films arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, he wanders the city aimlessly for three days, grabbing drinks and meeting women, with each day playing out like a version of the last.
16 September 2010
Oki, a film student, gets involved in two relationships as she navigates the advances of a fellow student and grapples with her feelings for her much older professor.
24 April 2024
Iris, a woman abroad in Seoul, teaches French and English in an idiosyncratic fashion that allows her to pursue her own philosophical and personal interests.
24 September 2015
By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets an artist named Yoon Heejung.
28 August 2013
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
14 May 2009
A South Korean art house film director is first invited to serve on the panel of a film festival, then to guest lecture at a film school.
06 May 2026
She has just finished the shoot of an independent film and now has to give three interviews about it.
18 September 2024
After a scandal breaks out among several students involved in the production of a skit, a lecturer at a South Korean women's college brings in her uncle, a famous actor, to bring the work to fruition.
28 February 2013
Facing her mother’s departure and the weight of a secret affair with her professor, college student Haewon drifts through a series of encounters and dreams, blurring the lines between her desires and reality.
27 May 2000
When filmmaker Young-soo introduces writer Soo-jung to his friend Jae-hoon, he unintentionally creates a love triangle.
23 March 2017
In a foreign city, an actress wanders through a seaside town, reflecting on her relationship with a married man.
31 May 2012
A young woman and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves: There are three women named Anne, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang.
27 May 2005
In Seoul, a suicidal student meets a young woman who decides to join him in his fatal gesture. Dongsoo, an unsuccessful filmmaker, spots a beautiful young woman, who happens to be the lead actress in the film he has just seen.
04 May 1996
The lives of 4 interconnected South Koreans – a married couple, a novelist the wife is having an affair with, and a second woman the novelist is simultaneously involved with.
07 March 2018
On a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival, Manhee is accused of being dishonest, and fired. A teacher named Claire goes around taking photos with a Polaroid camera.
04 April 1998
After a breakup, a young woman goes to a mountain resort on vacation and falls for a married policeman.
21 April 2022
A novelist visits a bookstore run by a young colleague who's been out of touch, then takes a walk with a film director and his wife.
07 June 2017
On her first day at work, Areum replaces a woman who broke up with the boss. The wife of the boss finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the other woman.
12 November 2009
Hong Sang-soo's Lost in the Mountains depicts Mi-sook's suffering when she discovers her friend Jin-young has been secretly sleeping with her lover.
19 July 2023
Recently returned to South Korea, an actress in her forties is staying with her friend and her cat. Meanwhile, an aging poet in declining health lives alone after the death of his own cat.
05 March 2021
A short film about the award ceremony at Berlinale '21 and then also about a snail.
12 September 2013
Sunhi, a film major graduate, visits her school to ask her Professor Choi for a recommendation letter to study in U.
12 April 2023
A director, a cinematographer, and an actress spend the days leading up to a movie shoot together on-location, waiting for the director to come up with an idea for what the film will be about.
03 November 2022
A series of interactions take place between an established film director, his estranged daughter interested in interior design, an interior designer, and others inside a multi-story commercial and residential building.
07 October 2011
While waiting at a seaside town with her mother for a relative, a young woman creates a list of things she wants to do during her time there.
14 May 2025
A young poet drops his girlfriend off at her parents' house and is amazed by its size. He bumps into her father, meets her mother and sister, and they all end up spending a long day together; fueled by conversation, food and libations.
10 November 2016
While a South Korean man wanders the city in search of the woman he just broke up with, she successively meets and flirts with two men who claim to have met her before.
02 October 2024
Hong Sang-soo’s short film made for the 62nd edition of the New York Film Festival.
31 August 2006
A movie director entices his young friend to come to the beach on the pretext of writing a script. He then starts an affair with the friend's girlfriend.
07 October 2005
South Korean cinema is in the throes of a creative explosion where mavericks are encouraged and masters are venerated.
02 October 2021
Hong Sangsoo's short film made for the 59th edition of the New York Film Festival.
01 October 2012
Prominent film critic Tony Rayns has long been a supporter of Korean cinema. This film illustrates Rayns’ affection for Korean cinema through interviews of Korean cineastes that have a special affinity for him, including JANG Sun-woo, LEE Chang-dong and HONG Sang-soo among others.
25 June 2022
A greeting from Hong Sang-soo.
01 October 2025
"we went to seoul for lunch the year before our son was born. it was very hot, but with some breeze.o
01 October 2023
Hong Sang-soo's short film made for the 61st edition of the New York Film Festival.
