Maybe you were already a Bong fan or maybe this is your first introduction to the increasingly legendary filmmaker.
Either way, you want to take a trip down memory lane and explore his previous work.
Thats where we come in!
So get on that warm bullet train and hug your super-pig close, because were doing this.
Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)
Here is Bongs theatrical feature-length debut.
Things go sideways from there.
The film marked Bongs second collaboration with Song Kang-ho (their first is sadly not available for streaming).
Worse still, Gang-doo is kept in quarantine and isolation because the creature allegedly holds a contagious disease.
Thus a story about destruction becomes one about a broken family looking for salvation.
Intriguingly, none of the three segments are filmed by Japanese filmmakers.
Rather theyre told from the unique vantages of Bong, Michael Gondry, and Leos Carax.
One such person is Teruyuki Kagawas central character, who hasnt left his apartment for a decade.
Available on:Amazon Prime
Mother (2009)
A mothers love is a profound thing.
Do-joon is somewhat slow but hes not stupid.
Snowpiercer (2013)
Bongs first English language film,Snowpierceris probably his most famous work afterParasite.
Yet they are the ones who power the engines fuel.
Its a delicious fable.
LikeSnowpiercer,Okjais a a fairy tale with much more nuanced and adult meaning than a typical storybook.
Then again its message is fairly universal.
The thrills are borne out of the conflict that arises between two families, the Kims and the Parks.
The Kims are also grifters who talk their way into becoming every employable servant the Parks could ever want.
Nonetheless, the question lingers of just who is using who?
