Cross-media picks for Hong Sang-soo fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
The picks here share a particular mood: relationships examined in close-up, time doing quiet damage, and the gap between what people say and what they actually mean. Conversations unfold at café tables, in shared apartments, across years of separation. Whether it is film, fiction, or a short interactive story, each work finds something unsettling lodged inside the ordinary — and trusts the viewer to notice without being told.
Film
By the Stream
A campus scandal over a student skit draws in a famous actor uncle — intimate, quietly observed.
Film
Lovesong
A friendship between two women deepens on a road trip, then circumstances force them apart for years.
Film
Lover's Discourse
Former lovers reunite for one night in Hong Kong, talking around the past and a possible future.
Film
Summer Time
A man wanted by authorities drifts into an unfamiliar provincial town, suspended between danger and stillness.
Film
The Day She Returns
An actress asked to reenact her own interviews finds she cannot remember them — memory made strange.
Film
Night and Day
A Korean man flees to Paris, where he meets an ex-girlfriend and a small community of fellow expatriates.
Film
The Table
Four women at one Seoul café table across one day, talking honestly about love and marriage.
Film
Mothers
A study-center owner faces an awkward request and the prospect of raising her late husband's teenage son alone.
Series
Save The Last Dance for Me
A kind woman takes in a man who has lost all memory; care and daily routine slowly become connection.
Series
What Comes After Love
A sad first love in Japan ends in breakup; five years later the two meet again in Korea.
Series
Suddenly This Summer
A quiet student with a habit of weaving real people into imagined stories navigates a consequential summer.
Series
Shall I Compare You To a Spring Day
Young love and brotherhood among a group of young adults living through revolutionary times in Beijing.
Series
With You
A girl adjusts to a new family and a new prestigious school, navigating each small uncertainty quietly.
Series
Sea of the Woman
A top student from a poor family chooses factory work over college, pursuing her own path on harder terms.
Series
Forty Something
A man who gave twenty years to the family business gradually realizes his position there has slipped away.
Series
Good Morning Shanghai
A kind-hearted Korean woman abroad whose name means fortunate finds bad luck follows her everywhere.
Game
a new life.
A short love story with five endings that asks: is it better to love and be hurt than never love at all?
Game
Carpe Diem
A bittersweet interactive story about a girl who is everything Jung wants — except for one thing.
Game
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch. 5 Meakashi
A small Japanese village in early summer, where a close community holds things it cannot fully contain.
Game
Kara no Shoujo
An ex-cop turned private eye in 1956 Tokyo works a murder case while searching for a missing woman.
Game
Gaokao.Love.100Days
A romance pursued across one hundred days leading up to China's national college entrance exam.
Game
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.4 Himatsubushi
A small rural village in early summer, where a detective's case reveals questions that only deepen.
Game
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
A small village in 1983 summer, where what the community carries together is more than it appears.
Game
昔:Yesterday
A spare puzzle built around one goal: reach the person you want — connection as the only mechanic.
Book
אותו הים
A widower, his absent son, and a comforting old friend — grief and ordinary life observed without sentiment.
Book
The court dancer
An orphan girl rises to become a jewel of the late Joseon Court, caught between favor and her own life.
Book
The Japanese Screen
A man ends a whirlwind romance on a thin excuse, leaving a woman with years of unanswered questions.
Book
The piano teacher
A passionate wartime love affair in 1942 Hong Kong, with betrayal coiled inside it from the start.
Book
Waiting
A doctor loves one woman for seventeen years while remaining married to another — waiting as a way of life.
Book
This is paradise!
A firsthand account of daily survival under North Korea's secretive, brutal regime — quietly shocking.
Book
82년생 김지영
An ordinary woman in her thirties begins to behave strangely; her doctor's notes build the full picture.
Book
One Night at Parenga
Ten years of memory, one night to reignite them — two people meet again and the past reasserts itself.
Start with films built around conversation and quiet emotional complexity — By the Stream, Lovesong, and Lover's Discourse all follow relationships examined in real time, without forcing resolution on them.
Waiting by Ha Jin — a man suspended between two women for seventeen years — rewards the same patient attention to unfulfilled longing. 82년생 김지영 is equally precise about the weight everyday life places on one person.
a new life. and Carpe Diem are short interactive stories focused on emotional texture — relationships, doubt, and small turning-point decisions — rather than action or spectacle.