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Park Chan-wook
Park Chan-wook’s screen credits include director work on Oldboy and director work on The Handmaiden.
Born August 23, 1963 Seoul, South Korea2 movies on MoviHero
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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. …
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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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- 2026Nino – A Film About Nino RotaSelf – Director
- 2026Cérémonie de palmarès du 79e Festival de CannesSelf
- 2026Mr. Kim Goes to the CinemaSelf
- 2025No Other ChoiceProducer · Director · Writer
- 2025Han Kang Chronicles: A Tale of Seven LivesSelf
- 2024UprisingWriter · Producer
- 2023I Haven’t Done AnythingSelf
- 2022Kultur-King KoreaActor
- 2022Decision to LeaveProducer · Writer · Director
- 2018Making of The HandmaidenActor
- 2018Believe It or NotProducer
- 2017Plankton SalesmenSelf (archive footage)
- 2017Decades ApartDirector · Writer · Producer
- 2016Old DaysSelf
- 2016The Truth BeneathWriter
- 2015The ShamelessProducer
- 2015Müdigkeitsgesellschaft: Byung-Chul Han in Seoul/BerlinSelf
- 2014A Rose RebornDirector · Writer
- 2014Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black ScreenSelf
- 2014Bitter, Sweet, SeoulDirector · Producer
- 2013OldboyWriter
- 2013SnowpiercerProducer
- 2013VDirector
- 2013Lee Jung Hyun: VDirector
- 2013StokerDirector
- 2012Day TripDirector · Writer · Producer
- 2012Ari Ari the Korean CinemaSelf
- 201160 Seconds of Solitude in Year ZeroWriter · Director
- 2011Night FishingDirector · Writer · Producer
- 2010Through Korean CinemaSelf
- 2010Making of ThirstActor
- 2009ThirstDirector · Writer · Producer
- 2008Crush and BlushWriter · Producer · Passerby
- 2007Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-youngSelf
- 2006I'm a Cyborg, But That's OKDirector · Writer · Producer
- 2006ZindaWriter
- 2005The Making of Lady VengeanceActor
- 2005A Boy Who Went to HeavenWriter
- 2005The Nine Lives of Korean CinemaSelf
- 2005The Process of Mr. VengeanceSelf
- 2005Lady VengeanceDirector · Writer
- 2004Autobiography of OldboyActor
- 2004Katanas, yakuzas y cintas de video(archive footage)
- 2004Three... ExtremesDirector · Writer
- 2003If You Were MeDirector · Writer
- 2003Never Ending Peace and LoveDirector · Writer
- 2002A Bizarre Love TriangleWriter
- 2002Sympathy for Mr. VengeanceDirector · Writer · Bus Passenger (uncredited)
- 2001The HumanistWriter
- 2000Joint Security AreaDirector · Writer
- 2000The AnarchistsWriter
- 1999JudgementDirector · Writer · Producer
- 1997TrioDirector · Writer
- 1995MascaraActor
- 1992The Moon Is... the Sun's DreamDirector · Writer
- Genocidal OrganDirector · Writer
- The 23rd Annual Unforgettable AwardsActor
- The Brigands of RattlecreekDirector · Producer · Writer
- The JailbreakerDirector · Writer
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Cho Jin-woong
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Choi Min-sik
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Ha Jung-woo
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