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For fans of Hong Sang-soo: what to watch, read & play next

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.

films for Hong Sang-soo fans

series for Hong Sang-soo fans

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books for Hong Sang-soo fans

Frequently asked

What should I watch if I like Hong Sang-soo?

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.

Are there books for Hong Sang-soo fans?

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.

Are there games that feel like Hong Sang-soo films?

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.

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