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.
9. Tokyo! (2008)
Bong Joon-ho directed a third of anthology film 'Tokyo!' alongside fellow visionary directors Michel Gondry and Leos Carax. Joon-ho's segment is called 'Shaking Tokyo' and is about a man who has not left his apartment in a decade and what happens to him when an earthquake hits. The film has a rating of 76 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes and completes our list. | Contributed