Park Chan-wook
Directing
Born 1963-08-23
Seoul, South Korea
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Park Chan-wook (Korean: 박찬욱; pronounced [pak̚tɕʰanuk̚]; born 23 August 1963) is a South Korean filmmaker and former film critic. Widely regarded as a leading figure in South Korean and 21st-century world cinema, he is known for films that blend crime, mystery, and thriller elements with other genres. His films are noted for their cinematography, framing, black humour, and often brutal subject matter.
After two unsuccessful films in the 1990s, which he has since largely disowned, Park came to prominence with his acclaimed third directorial effort, Joint Security Area (2000), which became the highest-grossing film in South Korean history at the time and which Park himself prefers to be regarded as his directorial debut. Using his newfound creative freedom, he would go on to direct the films forming his unofficial The Vengeance Trilogy: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), a financial failure that polarised critics, followed by Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005), both of which received critical acclaim and were financially successful. Oldboy in particular is regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, and helped establish Park as a well-known director outside his native country.
Most of Park's work following The Vengeance Trilogy was also commercially and critically successful both in South Korea and internationally, such as Thirst (2009), The Handmaiden (2016), which earned Park the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and Decision to Leave (2022), which won the Best Director award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. He directed the English-language miniseries The Little Drummer Girl (2018) and The Sympathizer (2024). His 2025 film No Other Choice was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
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Filmography
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The Daily Show
Snowpiercer
You Quiz on the Block
The Handmaiden
Oldboy
No Other Choice
Snowpiercer
Movie Room
The Sympathizer
Decision to Leave
Oldboy
Nattering with Nah
The Little Drummer Girl
Lady Vengeance
Joint Security Area
Stoker
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Uprising
Entourage
Thirst
The Truth Beneath
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
Three... Extremes
Plankton Salesmen
New Old Boy : Dir. Park
Modern Korea
인생이 영화
The Humanist
Nino - Un film su Nino Rota
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
The Shameless
Katanas, yakuzas y cintas de video
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
The Brigands of Rattlecreek
Crush and Blush
Müdigkeitsgesellschaft: Byung-Chul Han in Seoul/Berlin
Autobiography of Oldboy
V
If You Were Me
Zinda
Trio
Decades Apart
Night Fishing
A Bizarre Love Triangle
A Boy Who Went to Heaven
Old Days
The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream
The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema
Never Ending Peace and Love
Judgement
Bitter, Sweet, Seoul
Mascara
Making of The Handmaiden
A Rose Reborn
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
The Anarchists
I Haven’t Done Anything
Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young
Too Fragile to Be Loved
Day Trip
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