The twist: To keep their ruse running, the Kims have to pretend they don’t know one another. Before long, the siblings finagle their father a job as the Parks’ chauffeur, and their mom manages to get hired as housekeeper. When 20-something Kim Ki-woo (played by Choi Woo-sik) lands a job as an English tutor for the rich family’s daughter, he sniffs an opportunity and suggests his younger sister, posing as a friend of a friend, as an art tutor for the wealthy family’s rowdy little boy. The film tells the story of two mirroring families, the wealthy Parks and the poor Kims. Like all of Bong’s genre-bending movies - including The Host and Okja - Parasite defies easy categorization. 11) and seems likely to become South Korea’s first foreign-language Oscar nominee (and maybe even a best picture and best director contender). That early brush with the super-rich obviously stuck with the now-50-year-old director, because it’s pretty much the premise of his seventh film, Parasite, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in May, is already Bong’s biggest international hit (closing in on $100 million worldwide since its release Oct. Davies to Return as 'Doctor Who' Showrunner 12 Years After Departure
