Park Chan-wook

Directing·Aug 23, 1963·Seoul, South Korea

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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. 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.

Film	Credit
Cérémonie de palmarès du 79e Festival de Cannes2026 · Self	Self
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema2026 · Self	Self
No Other Choice2025 · Producer, Director, Screenplay	Producer, Director, Screenplay
Han Kang Chronicles: A Tale of Seven Lives2025 · Self	Self
Uprising2024 · Writer	Writer
I Haven’t Done Anything2023 · Self	Self
Kultur-King Korea2022 · Actor	Actor
Decision to Leave2022 · Producer, Writer, Director	Producer, Writer, Director
Believe It or Not2018 · Producer	Producer
Plankton Salesmen2017 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
Decades Apart2017 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Old Days2016 · Self	Self
The Truth Beneath2016 · Writer	Writer
Making of The Handmaiden2016 · Actor	Actor
The Handmaiden2016 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Müdigkeitsgesellschaft: Byung-Chul Han in Seoul/Berlin2015 · Self	Self
A Rose Reborn2014 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen2014 · Self	Self
Bitter, Sweet, Seoul2014 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
V2013 · Director	Director
Lee Jung Hyun: V2013 · Director	Director
Stoker2013 · Director	Director
Day Trip2012 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema2012 · Self	Self
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero2011 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Night Fishing2011 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Through Korean Cinema2010 · Self	Self
Making of Thirst2010 · Actor	Actor
Thirst2009 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
Crush and Blush2008 · Passerby, Screenplay, Producer	Passerby, Screenplay, Producer
Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young2007 · Self	Self
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK2006 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Making of Lady Vengeance2005 · Actor	Actor
A Boy Who Went to Heaven2005 · Writer	Writer
TThe Nine Lives of Korean Cinema2005 · Self	Self
The Process of Mr. Vengeance2005 · Self	Self
Lady Vengeance2005 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Autobiography of Oldboy2004 · Actor	Actor
Katanas, yakuzas y cintas de video2004 · (archive footage)	(archive footage)
Three... Extremes2004 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Oldboy2003 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
If You Were Me2003 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Never Ending Peace and Love2003 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
A Bizarre Love Triangle2002 · Writer	Writer
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance2002 · Bus Passenger (uncredited), Director, Screenplay	Bus Passenger (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
The Humanist2001 · Writer	Writer
Joint Security Area2000 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Anarchists2000 · Writer	Writer