Director Bong Joon-ho said: "The actors and characters in Mike Leigh's films are always shockingly vivid and alive." He was drawing attention to the vitality of characters created by Mike Leigh's distinctive directorial approach, famous for improvisation and long rehearsals.

The memoir of veteran actor Shin Young-kyun, a living witness to 100 years of Korean cinema. As one of the actors who led Korean film's golden age in the 1960s and 70s, the book is full of stories from the Chungmuro industry — both official history and backstage lore — featuring Kim Seung-ho and other luminaries of the era.

Director Bong Joon-ho revealed that he had briefly met Spike Jonze in person a few days earlier. He said the encounter left him with "an intense urge to get inside his head and explore every corner of his mind." It is a witty observation connecting the film's premise of entering another person's consciousness with the actual meeting with the director.

This is the first book of prose written in Korea about master Japanese filmmaker Imamura Shohei. A two-time Palme d'Or winner at Cannes, Imamura made films about figures marginalized by society — gangsters, sex workers, Zainichi Koreans — and used his own fortune to found the Japan Institute of the Moving Image to train future filmmakers. Director Bong Joon-ho wrote in his foreword: "This is the first book about Imamura Shohei. Reading the essays and interviews he wrote feels like peering into a neatly arranged diary of his and hearing him whisper in your ear." It is a book that offers a glimpse into the intimate artistic world of a great master.

Director Bong Joon-ho called this work "the most beautiful conclusion to a feature film career in the history of cinema." At the same time, he called the DVD box set "the most beautiful DVD box set in the history of humanity," adding that he desperately wanted to know who had designed it.

Bong Joon-ho said he wanted to watch this film in comparison with Imamura Shohei's remake of the same name and Kim Ki-young's Goryeojang. He expressed the wish to experience and appreciate the bold color work of director Kinoshita Keisuke fully through a Blu-ray release.

This is the debut novel by South Korean science fiction writer Kim Bo-young. Beginning with a gangster sent to take care of a rival organisation, it traverses worlds and dimensions to explore the philosophical question of "What is the self?" Kim Bo-young served as a consultant on the early draft of Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer screenplay. After reading the novel to the end, Bong wrote in his endorsement: "It is already, in its own right, a breathtakingly beautiful film." It is considered a masterpiece that uses the devices unique to genre fiction to explore questions of identity.

This is a work Bong Joon-ho recommended with the short but forceful words: "It's Max Ophüls!" He implied that the director's name alone is sufficient — no further explanation needed.