Park Chan-wook (Korean: 박찬욱 Korean pronunciation: [pak̚t͡ɕʰanuk̚ ]; born August 23, 1963; Seoul) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, producer, and former film critic. One of the most acclaimed and popular filmmakers in his native country, Park is most known for his films The Handmaiden and The Vengeance Trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance). His films are noted for their immaculate framing and often brutal subject matter. In a May 2004 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Park listed Sophocles, Shakespeare, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Kurt Vonnegut and others as being influences on his career. In a later interview for Lady Vengeance, Park listed Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Aldrich, Ingmar Bergman, Sam Fuller, Roman Polanski and Kim Ki-young as cinematic influences.
Park Chan-wook Biography / Wiki
| Name | Park Chan-wook |
| Also Know | 박찬욱, Chan-wook Park, PARKing CHANce, 朴赞éƒ, Пак Чхан Ук |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Seoul, South Korea |
| Date of Birth | 1963-08-23 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 59 |
| Deathday |
Park Chan-wook Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Katanas, yakuzas y cintas de video | (archive footage) | 2004-11-11 | … |
| Old Days | Self | 2016-04-29 | Old Days is a documentary about Park Chan-wook’s original masterpiece, Oldboy. It was created for Plain Archive’s Blu-ray release and first screened a… |
| The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema | Himself | 2006-04-08 | South Korean cinema is in the throes of a creative explosion where mavericks are encouraged and masters are venerated. But from where has this phenome… |
| Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young | Himself | 2007-01-21 | A documentary consisting of twenty-two Korean directors’ interviews about Kim Ki-young and respect for his work and the influence… |
| Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen | Self | 2014-04-02 | Documentary on the making of the film…. |
| Müdigkeitsgesellschaft: Byung-Chul Han in Seoul/Berlin | Self | 2015-02-09 | The essay film about the German philosopher Byung-Chul Han encircles the phenomenon of fatigue in our capitalistic societies and its associated sympto… |
| Autobiography of Oldboy | 2005-02-28 | A three and- a-half-hour video diary of the making of Oldboy. This was included as a special feature in the DVD and Blu Ray releases of Oldboy and was… | |
| Mascara | 1995-04-01 | Buzz Salon which is run by Cho is known for its mysterious ambience. Gi-hyuk, one of Cho’s best customers, falls for Hae-joo, a hostess at Buzz. Cho u… | |
| Ari Ari the Korean Cinema | Himself | 2012-12-06 | Director Chung Ji-Young criticizes the thought that older directors have difficulties in making certain movies. Actress Yoon Jin-Seo agonizes over her… |
| Through Korean Cinema | himself | 2010-10-09 | Discover the roots of Korean cinema. A cinema who surprised by the success recorded in the major international festivals. Interviews to five famous Ko… |
| Kam-bo | 1986-03-15 | Kam-bo is released from jail after serving five years for smuggling. He looks for his accomplice, Dong-il, and his wife. Dong-il has cleaned up his ol… | |
| Crush and Blush | Passerby | 2008-10-16 | With her frumpy hair, blushing face, and awkward mannerisms, Yang Mi Sook has spent her entire life being unnoticed. Nicknamed Miss Carrot, she dilige… |
| Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance | Bus Passenger (uncredited) | 2002-03-29 | This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. In order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend deve… |
Park Chan-wook Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Joint Security Area | Director | 2000-09-09 | After a shooting incident at the North/South Korean border/DMZ leaves 2 North Korean soldiers dead, a neutral Swiss/Swedish team investigates, what ac… |
| Sympathy for Lady Vengeance | Director | 2005-07-29 | After being wrongfully convicted, a woman is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her daughter. While in prison she gains the respect of her … |
| Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance | Director | 2002-03-29 | This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. In order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend deve… |
| I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK | Director | 2006-12-07 | Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly bel… |
| Thirst | Director | 2009-04-30 | Sang-hyun, a respected priest, volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a b… |
| Three… Extremes | Director | 2004-08-20 | An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors: Dumplings, directed by Fruit Chan of Hong Kong, Cut directed by Par… |
| Judgement | Director | 1999-10-01 | Half a million dollars were offered in indemnity to the victims’ relatives, and this triggered a merciless looting made by unscrupulous people. In a m… |
| If You Were Me | Director | 2003-11-14 | Anthology film of six shorts by leading Korean directors. Park Chan-Wook, tackles racial prejudice and the economic exploitation of immigrant workers … |
| Stoker | Director | 2013-02-28 | After India’s father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this my… |
| Night Fishing | Director | 2011-01-27 | A man casually sets up for a fishing trip at the water’s edge. Evening comes and a tug on his line presents him with the body of a woman…. |
| Day Trip | Director | 2012-12-28 | A master and his student visit a mountain to practice pansori (a musical storytelling performed by a singer and a drummer) after a music competition w… |
| The Moon Is… the Sun’s Dream | Director | 1992-02-29 | A gangster in Busan is caught having an affair with his boss’ mistress and the two run off with their organization’s money…. |
| Trio | Director | 1997-05-24 | Ahn is a suicidal saxophonist, Mun is violent simpleton with an I.Q. of 80 and Maria is single mother with dreams of becoming a nun. Ahn has tried num… |
| Bitter, Sweet, Seoul | Director | 2014-02-10 | Over 98 days from August 20th to November 25th 2013, 2821 people from around the world sent 11,852 video featuring many different faces of Seoul. 154 … |
| The Handmaiden | Director | 2016-06-01 | A Japanese woman hires a handmaiden who is secretly working with a con man to cheat her out of her wealth…. |
| A Rose Reborn | Director | 2014-10-03 | A brilliant young CEO from London contemplates the possibility of selling his invention to a mysterious Chinese billionaire. Before actually meeting h… |
| Decades Apart | Director | 2017-05-30 | For the work Decades Apart commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain for the exhibition Highlights, PARKing CHANce has conceived a… |
| Cut | Director | 2004-08-20 | A successful film director and his wife are kidnapped by an extra, who forces the director to play his sadistic games. If he fails, his wife’s finge… |
| Never Ending Peace and Love | Director | 2003-11-14 | “Never Ending Peace and Love” (or “N.E.P.A.L.”) is part of the South Korean omnibus film “If You Were Me” (2003). Comprising six short films directed … |
| The Ax | Director | A remake of the 2005 film with the same name. After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his… | |
| 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero | Director | 2011-12-22 | An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was … |
| Oldboy | Director | 2003-11-21 | With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors…. |
| Decision to Leave | Director | 2022-06-29 | From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begi… |
| Life Is But a Dream | Director | 2022-02-17 | An undertaker who needs woods to build a coffin for the savior of his village digs up an abandoned grave. But in doing so, he awakens the ghost of an … |
| Lee Jung Hyun: V | Director | 2013-04-01 | A man experiences a car crash and visits the nearest spooky mansion for help, only to discover its ghostly inhabitant wants to take him as a groom…. |
| Director | Brilliant young actress Charlie strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on holiday in Greece, but it rapidly becomes apparent tha… | ||
| Director | The story of a half-Vietnamese, half-French undercover Communist agent as he infiltrates the South Vietnamese military and then later the burgeoning V… | ||
Park Chan-wook Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Thirst | Producer | 2009-04-30 | Sang-hyun, a respected priest, volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a b… |
| Bitter, Sweet, Seoul | Producer | 2014-02-10 | Over 98 days from August 20th to November 25th 2013, 2821 people from around the world sent 11,852 video featuring many different faces of Seoul. 154 … |
| Crush and Blush | Producer | 2008-10-16 | With her frumpy hair, blushing face, and awkward mannerisms, Yang Mi Sook has spent her entire life being unnoticed. Nicknamed Miss Carrot, she dilige… |
| I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK | Producer | 2006-12-07 | Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly bel… |
| Night Fishing | Producer | 2011-01-27 | A man casually sets up for a fishing trip at the water’s edge. Evening comes and a tug on his line presents him with the body of a woman…. |
| Day Trip | Producer | 2012-12-28 | A master and his student visit a mountain to practice pansori (a musical storytelling performed by a singer and a drummer) after a music competition w… |
| Believe It or Not | Producer | 2018-03-09 | Over many years of division, North and South Korea have become like a hall of mirrors where it is difficult to tell the real from the false. Inspired … |
| Snowpiercer | Executive Producer | 2013-08-01 | In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that tr… |
| The Handmaiden | Executive Producer | 2016-06-01 | A Japanese woman hires a handmaiden who is secretly working with a con man to cheat her out of her wealth…. |
| Judgement | Producer | 1999-10-01 | Half a million dollars were offered in indemnity to the victims’ relatives, and this triggered a merciless looting made by unscrupulous people. In a m… |
| Decades Apart | Producer | 2017-05-30 | For the work Decades Apart commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain for the exhibition Highlights, PARKing CHANce has conceived a… |
| Life Is But a Dream | Producer | 2022-02-17 | An undertaker who needs woods to build a coffin for the savior of his village digs up an abandoned grave. But in doing so, he awakens the ghost of an … |
| Joint Security Area | Production Assistant | 2000-09-09 | After a shooting incident at the North/South Korean border/DMZ leaves 2 North Korean soldiers dead, a neutral Swiss/Swedish team investigates, what ac… |
| Decision to Leave | Producer | 2022-06-29 | From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begi… |
| Executive Producer | More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circle… | ||
| Executive Producer | Brilliant young actress Charlie strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on holiday in Greece, but it rapidly becomes apparent tha… | ||
| Executive Producer | The story of a half-Vietnamese, half-French undercover Communist agent as he infiltrates the South Vietnamese military and then later the burgeoning V… | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Oldboy | Screenplay | 2003-11-21 | With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors…. |
| Joint Security Area | Screenplay | 2000-09-09 | After a shooting incident at the North/South Korean border/DMZ leaves 2 North Korean soldiers dead, a neutral Swiss/Swedish team investigates, what ac… |
| Sympathy for Lady Vengeance | Screenplay | 2005-07-29 | After being wrongfully convicted, a woman is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her daughter. While in prison she gains the respect of her … |
| Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance | Screenplay | 2002-03-29 | This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. In order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend deve… |
| I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK | Screenplay | 2006-12-07 | Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly bel… |
| Thirst | Screenplay | 2009-04-30 | Sang-hyun, a respected priest, volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a b… |
| Three… Extremes | Writer | 2004-08-20 | An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors: Dumplings, directed by Fruit Chan of Hong Kong, Cut directed by Par… |
| Judgement | Writer | 1999-10-01 | Half a million dollars were offered in indemnity to the victims’ relatives, and this triggered a merciless looting made by unscrupulous people. In a m… |
| Crush and Blush | Screenplay | 2008-10-16 | With her frumpy hair, blushing face, and awkward mannerisms, Yang Mi Sook has spent her entire life being unnoticed. Nicknamed Miss Carrot, she dilige… |
| Night Fishing | Writer | 2011-01-27 | A man casually sets up for a fishing trip at the water’s edge. Evening comes and a tug on his line presents him with the body of a woman…. |
| The Anarchists | Writer | 2000-04-29 | Set in 1920s Shanghai, the film recounts the activities of a group of young Koreans trying to destabilize Japanese control of their penninsula. Throug… |
| A Bizarre Love Triangle | Writer | 2002-12-05 | Eun-hee is an extravagant and selfish woman who lives a life of luxury. She constantly swears, acts extremely careless, and is unashamedly tactless. Y… |
| The Moon Is… the Sun’s Dream | Writer | 1992-02-29 | A gangster in Busan is caught having an affair with his boss’ mistress and the two run off with their organization’s money…. |
| Trio | Writer | 1997-05-24 | Ahn is a suicidal saxophonist, Mun is violent simpleton with an I.Q. of 80 and Maria is single mother with dreams of becoming a nun. Ahn has tried num… |
| The Humanist | Writer | 2001-05-12 | Te-o begins life as a lonely son of a high-ranking officer. He buys his friends with money and ice cream. Eventually two of these boys, the orphans Eu… |
| The Handmaiden | Writer | 2016-06-01 | A Japanese woman hires a handmaiden who is secretly working with a con man to cheat her out of her wealth…. |
| The Truth Beneath | Writer | 2016-06-23 | After an extremely close national assembly race, Jong-chan wins the nomination of his party. He and his wife Yeon-hong are fully committed to the camp… |
| If You Were Me | Writer | 2003-11-14 | Anthology film of six shorts by leading Korean directors. Park Chan-Wook, tackles racial prejudice and the economic exploitation of immigrant workers … |
| A Boy Who Went to Heaven | Writer | 2005-11-11 | An orphaned boy falls in love with and writes anonymous letters a to 30-year old woman because she reminds him of his mother…. |
| Decades Apart | Writer | 2017-05-30 | For the work Decades Apart commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain for the exhibition Highlights, PARKing CHANce has conceived a… |
| Day Trip | Writer | 2012-12-28 | A master and his student visit a mountain to practice pansori (a musical storytelling performed by a singer and a drummer) after a music competition w… |
| Never Ending Peace and Love | Writer | 2003-11-14 | “Never Ending Peace and Love” (or “N.E.P.A.L.”) is part of the South Korean omnibus film “If You Were Me” (2003). Comprising six short films directed … |
| Cut | Writer | 2004-08-20 | A successful film director and his wife are kidnapped by an extra, who forces the director to play his sadistic games. If he fails, his wife’s finge… |
| A Rose Reborn | Writer | 2014-10-03 | A brilliant young CEO from London contemplates the possibility of selling his invention to a mysterious Chinese billionaire. Before actually meeting h… |
| Life Is But a Dream | Writer | 2022-02-17 | An undertaker who needs woods to build a coffin for the savior of his village digs up an abandoned grave. But in doing so, he awakens the ghost of an … |
| 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero | Writer | 2011-12-22 | An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was … |
| The Shameless | Creative Producer | 2015-05-15 | A homicide detective tries to flush out a mob enforcer by befriending the suspect’s beautiful girlfriend, but soon develops romantic feelings for her…. |
| Joint Security Area | Comic Book | 2000-09-09 | After a shooting incident at the North/South Korean border/DMZ leaves 2 North Korean soldiers dead, a neutral Swiss/Swedish team investigates, what ac… |
| Decision to Leave | Writer | 2022-06-29 | From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begi… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Too Fragile to Be Loved | Editor | 2010-04-01 | Love story. Too hard to believe, and too much to bear…. |
| Reawakening of memories | Editor | 2017-09-08 | I wanted to render an interesting depiction of how the extraction of a dead person’s memory-a very sci-fi-esque musing-is used to solve the mystery of… |
| A Boy with Arms | Editor | 2012-04-01 | The boy’s mother packs her belongings and leaves her family for another man. The boy gets home only to see that his mother had left and decides to kil… |
| Creator | Brilliant young actress Charlie strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on holiday in Greece, but it rapidly becomes apparent tha… | ||
| Creator | The story of a half-Vietnamese, half-French undercover Communist agent as he infiltrates the South Vietnamese military and then later the burgeoning V… | ||
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