Park Chan-wook

Park Chanwook Korean 박찬욱 pronounced paktɕʰanuk born 23 August 1963 is a South Korean filmmaker and former film critic Widely regarded as a leading figure in South Korean and 21stcentury 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 highestgrossing 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 wellknown director outside his native country Most of Parks 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 Englishlanguage 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 Chanwook licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia