Bringing to light Bong Joon-Ho's secret first film

A new documentary about the Parasite director's hidden debut film

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Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon-ho's first movie about a trapped gorilla dreaming of a different life-was hidden from the world for three decades, but a new documentary has brought it to light.

Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club showcases Bong's formative years as an obsessive film enthusiast and aspiring filmmaker, as well as a group of quirky young South Korean cinephiles who came together in the early 1990s.

This cohort-dubbed "Yellow Door" for the colour of their office entrance-included both Bong and the documentary's director, Lee Hyuk-rae. Until this year, only Yellow Door members had ever seen Bong's debut film, Looking for Paradise, which features a stuffed gorilla locked in a basement, fantasising about a banana tree and battling excrement that comes to life as a worm.