bong JOON - HO (SHAKING TOKYO) is the internationally acclaimed South Korean-born writer-director of THE HOST (2006), which debuted to rousing fanfare at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival before playing to millions of people around the world, catapulting Bong to the front rank of popular international directors. He studied film at the Korean Academy of Film Arts, screening his graduate thesis film at both the Vancouver and Hong Kong International Film Festivals before directing his first feature in 2000, the comic social satire BARKING DOGS NEVER BITE. His homegrown breakthrough came in 2003 with MEMORIES OF MURDER, the chilling police procedural based on the true story of Korea's first serial killings on record; the film was a commercial and critical success that went on to engross audiences around the world, resulting in his international breakthrough THE HOST, a monster movie about globalism set in Seoul that earned Bong comparisons to Steven Spielberg.
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