Bong Joon-ho Books · 봉준호 책

The spark for the animated film Ally: Bong Joon-ho was captivated by the deep-sea creatures in Claire Nouvian's photo book. (Source: Star News)

Bong Joon-ho's blurb: a calm, thoughtful answer to the question of what desires drive us. (Source: Aladin)

Recommended in an EBS reading campaign for anyone going through a hard time: it lets you experience life from a wider span of time. (Source: Channel Yes)

A well-known comics fan, Bong Joon-ho recommended this in an EBS reading campaign alongside Bad Friends. (Source: Channel Yes)

He wrote the blurb for veteran actor Shin Young-kyun's memoir, calling him someone who belongs in the record of Korean film history and of his own life in film. (Source: Aladin)

Bong Joon-ho wrote the blurb: the secret love story of someone always by cinema's side, a cinephile's diary opened with care. (Source: Aladin)

Bong Joon-ho's blurb: knowing the author since college, the plain, honest prose felt just like him, a comfortable read throughout. (Source: Aladin)

Bong Joon-ho's blurb: unpredictable humor, desperate violence, and dark energy, a new starting point for the graphic novel. (Source: Aladin)

Kim Bo-young advised on the early draft of the Snowpiercer screenplay, and through that connection director Bong read this novel himself and wrote its blurb. (Source: Aladin)

Bong Joon-ho's blurb: as Parasite's second half shows, smell stirs memory and emotion most powerfully, yet it has always been treated as secondary. (Source: Aladin)

Bong Joon-ho's blurb: had it come out a few years earlier, it would have been required reading for Okja's whole cast and crew. (Source: Aladin)

Bong Joon-ho's blurb: Choi Kyu-sok's art conveys the characters' dread right down to the bone, a stroke of genius. (Source: Aladin)

The author, Park Il-young, is novelist Park Tae-won's eldest son and an uncle of director Bong. Bong called the records in this book beautiful and harrowing. (Source: Aladin)

Bong Joon-ho's blurb: essentially the first Korean book on Shohei Imamura, like peeking into the master's diary and hearing him whisper. (Source: Aladin)