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Yeon Sang-ho

Director

Yeon Sang-ho

Born December 25, 1978 in Seoul, South Korea20 films

Yeon Sang-ho (born 1978) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the animated films The King of Pigs (2011) and The Fake (2013), and the live-action film Train to Busan (2016).

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Colony posterFirst watchColony20268.1Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility.View film

Essential films

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Train to Busan poster7.7Train to Busan2016Peninsula poster6.7Peninsula2020Seoul Station poster6.5Seoul Station2016JUNG_E poster6.1JUNG_E2023Psychokinesis poster6.3Psychokinesis2018Revelations poster6.4Revelations2025The King of Pigs poster6.1The King of Pigs2011

Filmography

20 films as director
  1. TBA35th StreetDirector
  2. TBADevotionDirector
  3. TBADr. ApocalypseDirector
  4. 2026Paradise LostDirector
  5. 2026ColonyDirector
  6. 2025The UglyDirector
  7. 2025RevelationsDirector
  8. 2023JUNG_EDirector
  9. 2020PeninsulaDirector
  10. 2018PsychokinesisDirector
  11. 2017The Way HomeDirector
  12. 2016Seoul StationDirector
  13. 2016Train to BusanDirector
  14. 2013The FakeDirector
  15. 2012The WindowDirector
  16. 2011The King of PigsDirector
  17. 2008Love Is ProteinDirector
  18. 2008Indie Anibox: Selma's Protein CoffeeDirector
  19. 2004The Hell (Two Kinds of Life)Director
  20. 1998Megalomania of DDirector