Bong Joon-ho, director of ‘Parasite’, wants to make an anime

Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean director who won the Oscar for Best Director for ‘Parasite’, was at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2024, the gala of the popular streaming platform specializing in anime. Bong Joon-ho presented one of the awards, and it was on stage when he admitted that he was “thinking about making an animated piece in Japan.”

The possibility of having one of the best directors in the world making an anime is staggering. However, we’ll still have to wait a little while for this animated project he would like to make in Japan to become a reality, as Bong Joon-ho has ‘Mickey 17′, his next film, ahead of him, as well as a Korean animated film with one of the largest budgets in the history of cinema in South Korea.

Bong Joon-ho, a privileged mind for cinema

The South Korean director has an outstanding career, but it took him almost two decades to be recognized internationally. ‘Parasite’ was the trigger for Bong Joon-ho to begin to be a name recognized by Hollywood, but before he became the winner of best film at the 2020 Oscars, he directed other great films such as the fantastic ‘Memories of Murder’, which won him the Silver Shell for best director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2003. ‘Snowpiercer’, with a mostly international cast, and ‘Okja’, are other notable films from a filmography worth enjoying, with many of its films featuring Song Kang-ho as its fetish actor.

‘Mickey 17′ will be his next film, but we will have to wait until 2025 to be able to enjoy what he is preparing with Robert Pattinson as the main actor.