“For filmmakers, it’s simple, we just want to work with great actors and Song Kang-ho is such a great actor that it’s fearful how good he is…”īong Joon-ho’s auteurism is defined by his rich artistic collaboration with the star-actor Song Kang-ho – a lengthy and productive creative partnership between filmmaker and lead actor that is reminiscent of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, Satyajit Ray and Soumitra Chatterjee (whose recent death has been mourned in India and beyond), Ingmar Bergman and Max von Sydow, Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni, Martin Scorsese and Robert de Niro, and Wong Kar-wai and Tony Leung Chiu-wai.
