Barking Dogs Never Bite (플란다스의개)

Mon, Apr 14, 2025 | 7:30pm PT
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Ted Mann Theater

As a community partner for this screening, GYOPO was given the opportunity to invite Director Justin Kim WooSǒk to introduce Barking Dogs Never Die and offer audiences context and background on the film and director.

Bong Joon Ho’s feature debut is the perfect gateway into the director’s cinematic imagination, which is realized by his rigorous examination of every character and his exploration of the numerous possibilities and encounters presented in the narrative. Barking Dogs Never Bite is centered around an unemployed academic and his satirical battle against barking dogs in his apartment building. In the film, dogs serve as a metaphor for the director’s exploration of human nature, by unearthing the characters’ true emotions and moral dilemmas while exposing their inherent darkness and absurdity.

2000 | 110 min | South Korea | Color | Korean | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Bong Joon Ho
WRITTEN BY: Bong Joon Ho, Son Tae-woong, Song Ji-ho
WITH: Lee Sung-jae, Bae Doona, Byun Hee-bong, Go Soo-hee