Park Chan-wook
Born
23 August 1963 (62)
Place of Birth
Seoul, South Korea
Also known as
Chan-wook Park
Biography
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 pr...
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.
Filmography (40)
Cérémonie de palmarès du 79e Festival de Cannes
2026
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
2026
No Other Choice
2025
Han Kang Chronicles: A Tale of Seven Lives
2025
I Haven’t Done Anything
2023
Kultur-King Korea
2022
Decision to Leave
2022
Making of The Handmaiden
2018
Plankton Salesmen
2017
Decades Apart
2017
🎬 Director
Old Days
2016
The Handmaiden
2016
Müdigkeitsgesellschaft: Byung-Chul Han in Seoul/Berlin
2015
A Rose Reborn
2014
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
2014
Bitter, Sweet, Seoul
2014
V
2013
Lee Jung Hyun: V
2013
🎬 Director
Stoker
2013
Day Trip
2012
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
2012
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011
Night Fishing
2011
Through Korean Cinema
2010
Making of Thirst
2010
Thirst
2009
Crush and Blush
2008
Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young
2007
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
2006
The Making of Lady Vengeance
2005
The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema
2005
The Process of Mr. Vengeance
2005
Lady Vengeance
2005
Autobiography of Oldboy
2004
Katanas, yakuzas y cintas de video
2004
Three... Extremes
2004
Oldboy
2003
If You Were Me
2003
Never Ending Peace and Love
2003
🎬 Director
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2002