Every Bong Joon-Ho Film Ranked Worst To Best

For many people watching the 92nd Academy Awards, Bong Joon-ho may have been a complete unknown. But he made history with Parasite as it won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture.

Not only did he become the first South Korean to receive a nomination for any category at the Academy Award’s, he also became the first Asian filmmaker to win in all categories he was nominated in. This also means he is the only person to win four Oscars for a single film, and equalises the record set by Walt Disney in 1953 for the most wins in a single night.

But for those who are familiar with his work, it comes as no surprise that Bong Joon-ho finally got the recognition and accolades that his work deserves. After graduating from the Korean Academy of Film Arts in the 1990’s, Bong wasted no time in establishing himself in the film industry, as he started writing and directing his own films.

And so we are going to look back on his previous films and do our best to try and rank them from Best to Worst. Which is not an easy thing to do...

Bong’s directorial debut film did not generate as much success as his most recent work, but it allowed Bong to showcase his creative talents as both a writer and director for the first time.

The comedy drama film is about an unemployed academic, Ko Yun-ju, who is struggling to support his pregnant wife and get his dream job as a university professor. The situation is not made any better for him when a neighbour's unattended dog barks profusely. This is eventually what drives Yun-ju over the edge.

In his enraged state, he decides to kidnap the dog and tries to kill it, before changing his mind and deciding to lock it away in a basement cabinet. Park Hyun-nam,a young maintenance worker for the apartment Yun-ju lives in, hears about the missing dog and sets off to try and find it.

What follows is a sequence of dark and comedic events as Yun-ju tries to avoid being caught for his kidnapping of the dog while Hyun-nam’s amateur investigation skills lead her from one situation to another.

Although the film did not set the world alight, it is still fondly remembered and celebrated in Eastern Asia.