Cinematographer

Hong Kyung-pyo

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13:00: average
39 min: in total

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The Wailing

Na Hong-jin · 2016

Na Hong-jin’s 2016 Korean mystery-horror follows a rural policeman investigating inexplicable violence in his village. As explanations multiply — shamanic curse, demonic possession, epidemic, colonial panic — none cohere, and conviction becomes indistinguishable from delusion. With deliberate pacing, restrained performances, and Hong Kyung-pyo’s naturalistic cinematography, the film sustains dread through ambiguity rather than revelation. Its power lies in how thoroughly it models the exhaustion and danger of not knowing — and how easily certainty replaces it.

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Burning

Lee Chang-dong · 2018

Eight years after his last film, Lee Chang-dong adapted a short Murakami story into a slow, unsettling thriller about a young writer, the childhood friend who vanishes, and the wealthy man who may or may not have killed her. Cannes competed for it, critics kept it on year-end lists, and a Korean poll of over a hundred critics later called it the best Korean film ever made.

13:00

Parasite

Bong Joon-ho · 2019

Bong Joon-ho's 2019 film follows the Kim family, unemployed and living in a semi-basement flat, as they scheme their way one by one into staff jobs inside a wealthy household run by the oblivious Park family, until a discovery beneath the Parks' house upends both families' arrangements. Built from a stage idea Bong developed after his own experience tutoring a rich family's son, and shot on a purpose-built house designed around the Parks' fictional architect, the film became the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture after also winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes.