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

Han Kang Chronicles: A Tale of Seven Lives

Nattering with Nah

Modern Korea

Making of The Handmaiden

V

Movie Room

You Quiz on the Block

The Handmaiden

Oldboy

New Old Boy : Dir. Park

Entourage

Joint Security Area

No Other Choice

Lady Vengeance

Snowpiercer

Decision to Leave

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

A Boy Who Went to Heaven

The Little Drummer Girl

Uprising

Thirst

Bitter, Sweet, Seoul

I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK

The Sympathizer

Snowpiercer

The Truth Beneath

Three... Extremes

Stoker

Old Days

The Shameless

Crush and Blush

The Daily Show

The Humanist

Judgement

I Haven’t Done Anything

Oldboy

The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema

If You Were Me

Day Trip

Night Fishing

Ari Ari the Korean Cinema

The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream

A Rose Reborn

Müdigkeitsgesellschaft: Byung-Chul Han in Seoul/Berlin

Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen

The Anarchists

A Bizarre Love Triangle

Trio