Since making his directorial debut in 2000 with Barking Dogs Don’t Bite, Bong Joon-ho has taken South Korean cinema global.
The winner of three Oscars for Parasite, he has successfully divided his career between Korean-language films and blockbusters co-produced with Hollywood studios.
The latest of those, Mickey 17, has just been released in cinemas in the last week.
We thought it was the perfect chance to look back on his career - and rank all nine of his films, according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
5. The Host (2006)
Bong Joon-ho's horror creature feature The Host scores an impressive 93 per cent rating. It sees a strange amphibious creature hunting in and around the Seoul waterways | Contributed
6. Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)
Scoring an 88 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes is dark comedy 'Barking Dogs Never Bite. It sees an unemployed professor take drastic action when he gets angered by the sound of barking dogs. | Contributed
7. Okja (2017)
Science-fiction adventure film 'Okja' sees a young girl seek to rescue her adorable pet 'super pig' from a meat factory. The tear-jerker has an 87 per cent rating. | Contributed
8. Mickey 17 (2025)
Joon-ho has returned to sci-fi for his latest film 'Mickey 17', starring Robert Pattinson. It sees a man join a space colony as an 'expendable' - a worker who is used for research and who is cloned every time he dies. It currently has a Rotten Tomato rating of 78 per cent. | Contributed