Bong Joon-ho
The genre alchemist. He moves between thriller, comedy, horror, and social drama in a single scene. His films are about class, they make you laugh until you realize you are the punchline.
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Parasite
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
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Korean New Wave architects who put Korean cinema on the global map — brilliance inseparable from visceral genre.
Both use bourgeois homes as crime scenes — class violence made literal, comfortable spaces turned threatening.
Aquarius and Parasite both anatomize class from the inside — the slow grinding violence of inequality.
Both Cannes selections distributed through the East Asian art cinema prestige circuit.
