Film festival award-winning works are distributed one after another! 10 recommended NEON movies

7. "Parasite" (19) Director: Bong Joon-ho

It won the Palme d'Or, the highest award at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated in six categories at the 92nd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Editing, Art Design, and Best International Feature Film. After that, it was a movie that changed the era and won Oscars in four categories, including Best Picture and Best Director. With the success of this first-ever work, it can be said that NEON's name became known worldwide. The NEON brand, which continues to this day to "distribute award-winning and popular films from international film festivals in the United States," was established here.

This work is a cynical story set in modern-day South Korea, depicting the intertwining destinies of a wealthy family and a poor family. One by one, poor families ``parasitize'' wealthy families as tutors or servants by lying about their identity. If that's all there is to it, it's a kind of thrilling drama, but what's important is what happens next. A poor family who briefly experienced a rich life by joining in with the rich realizes that there is something that cannot be overcome that separates them from them... The theme of ``poverty'' was exploited, including its ``smell,'' and it left a mark on people's hearts, transcending countries, cultures, ages, and genders.

This film was a huge hit in Japan with box office revenue of over 4.7 billion yen. It is the core of the current popularity of Korean content, and will continue to be a work that will be talked about for a long time to come.

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8. "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" (19) Director: Celine Sciamma