
Park Chan-wook
Known for DirectingBorn 1963-08-23 (age 62)Seoul, South Korea
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Park Chan-wook, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more
Movies & web series
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Han Kang Chronicles: A Tale of Seven Lives
2025 · Movie
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Nattering with Nah
2023 · Series
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Modern Korea
2019 · Series
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Making of The Handmaiden
2018 · Movie
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V
2013 · Movie
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Movie Room
2018 · Series
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You Quiz on the Block
2018 · Series
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The Handmaiden
2016 · Movie
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Oldboy
2003 · Movie
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New Old Boy : Dir. Park
2025 · Series
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Entourage
2016 · Series
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Joint Security Area
2000 · Movie
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No Other Choice
2025 · Movie
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Lady Vengeance
2005 · Movie
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Snowpiercer
2020 · Series
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Decision to Leave
2022 · Movie
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2002 · Movie
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A Boy Who Went to Heaven
2005 · Movie
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The Little Drummer Girl
2018 · Series
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Uprising
2024 · Movie
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Thirst
2009 · Movie
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Bitter, Sweet, Seoul
2014 · Movie
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I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
2006 · Movie
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The Sympathizer
2024 · Series
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Snowpiercer
2013 · Movie
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The Truth Beneath
2016 · Movie
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Three... Extremes
2004 · Movie
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Stoker
2013 · Movie
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Old Days
2016 · Movie
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The Shameless
2015 · Movie
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Crush and Blush
2008 · Movie
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The Daily Show
1996 · Series
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The Humanist
2001 · Movie
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Judgement
1999 · Movie
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I Haven’t Done Anything
2023 · Movie
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Oldboy
2013 · Movie
The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema
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The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema
2005 · Movie
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If You Were Me
2003 · Movie
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Day Trip
2012 · Movie
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Night Fishing
2011 · Movie
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Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
2012 · Movie
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The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream
1992 · Movie
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A Rose Reborn
2014 · Movie
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Müdigkeitsgesellschaft: Byung-Chul Han in Seoul/Berlin
2015 · Movie
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Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
2014 · Movie
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The Anarchists
2000 · Movie
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A Bizarre Love Triangle
2002 · Movie
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Trio
1997 · Movie