Park Chan-wook
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.
Müdigkeitsgesellschaft: Byung-Chul Han in Seoul/Berlin
(Self)
I Haven’t Done Anything
(Self)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
(Bus Passenger (uncredited))
Kultur-King Korea
Katanas, yakuzas y cintas de video
((archive footage))
Mascara
Old Days
(Self)
The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema
(Self)
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
(Self)
Through Korean Cinema
(Self)
Crush and Blush
(Passerby)
Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young
(Self)
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen
(Self)
Nino
(Self - director)
Han Kang Chronicles: A Tale of Seven Lives
(Self)
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
(Self)
Plankton Salesmen
(Self (archive footage))
Autobiography of Oldboy
Making of Thirst
Making of The Handmaiden
The Process of Mr. Vengeance
(Self)
The Making of Lady Vengeance
Cérémonie de palmarès du 79e Festival de Cannes
(Self)
Entourage
(Self)
Movie Room
(Self)
Modern Korea
(Self (archive footage))
Nattering with Nah
New Old Boy : Dir. Park
(Self)
You Quiz on the Block
(Self)
The Daily Show
(Self - Guest)
인생이 영화
Oldboy
(Screenplay)
Joint Security Area
(Screenplay)
Joint Security Area
(Director)
Lady Vengeance
(Director)
Lady Vengeance
(Screenplay)
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
(Director)
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
(Screenplay)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
(Director)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
(Screenplay)
Lee Jung Hyun: V
(Director)
Thirst
(Screenplay)
Thirst
(Producer)
Thirst
(Director)
Three... Extremes
(Director)
Three... Extremes
(Writer)
Judgement
(Writer)
Judgement
(Director)
If You Were Me
(Director)
Crush and Blush
(Screenplay)
Reawakening of memories
(Editor)
A Boy with Arms
(Editor)
Joint Security Area
(Production Assistant)
Too Fragile to Be Loved
(Editor)
The Shameless
(Creative Producer)
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
(Writer)
Night Fishing
(Director)
Night Fishing
(Writer)
Stoker
(Director)
The Anarchists
(Writer)
A Bizarre Love Triangle
(Writer)
The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream
(Director)
The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream
(Writer)
Day Trip
(Director)
Decision to Leave
(Producer)
Bitter, Sweet, Seoul
(Director)
Trio
(Director)
Trio
(Writer)
Decision to Leave
(Writer)
The Humanist
(Writer)
The Handmaiden
(Director)
The Handmaiden
(Writer)
A Rose Reborn
(Director)
The Jailbreaker
(Director)
The Jailbreaker
(Writer)
The Truth Beneath
(Writer)
If You Were Me
(Writer)
A Boy Who Went to Heaven
(Writer)
Night Fishing
(Producer)
Crush and Blush
(Producer)
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
(Producer)
Bitter, Sweet, Seoul
(Producer)
No Other Choice
(Producer)
Uprising
(Writer)
Zinda
(Original Film Writer)
Decades Apart
(Director)
Decades Apart
(Writer)
Day Trip
(Producer)
Day Trip
(Writer)
Never Ending Peace and Love
(Director)
Believe It or Not
(Producer)
The Shameless
(Executive Producer)
The Handmaiden
(Executive Producer)
Snowpiercer
(Executive Producer)
Never Ending Peace and Love
(Writer)
Judgement
(Producer)
No Other Choice
(Director)
Decades Apart
(Producer)
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
(Director)
Oldboy
(Director)
Decision to Leave
(Director)
A Rose Reborn
(Writer)
Uprising
(Executive Producer)
V
(Director)
Genocidal Organ
(Director)
Genocidal Organ
(Writer)
Oldboy
(Original Film Writer)
The Brigands of Rattlecreek
(Director)
No Other Choice
(Screenplay)
The Brigands of Rattlecreek
(Producer)
The Brigands of Rattlecreek
(Screenplay)
Snowpiercer
(Executive Producer)
The Little Drummer Girl
(Executive Producer)
The Little Drummer Girl
(Director)
The Sympathizer
(Executive Producer)
The Sympathizer
(Director)
The Sympathizer
(Writer)
The Sympathizer
(Creator)