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Park Chan Wook

Director
Forfans of psychological thrillers, art-house cinema, and stylized revenge dramas.
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The Profile

Park Chan-wook is a South Korean film director known for the Vengeance Trilogy (including Old Boy and Lady Vengeance), The Handmaiden, and Decision to Leave. His films often explore revenge, obsession, and stylized violence with meticulous visual composition.

Old Boy won the Grand Prix at Cannes (2004). Decision to Leave earned Park a Best Director prize at Cannes (2022). He is widely associated with the Vengeance Trilogy and a visually rigorous, auteurist approach to thriller cinema.

DeBaser's reviews celebrate Park Chan-wook's mastery of revenge narratives and refined visual style. Readers note Hitchcockian echoes in Decision to Leave and lauded Old Boy for its poetic brutality. Lady Vendetta is read as transformative and redemptive within the director's revenge trilogy.

Notable Quotes

❝ The desire for revenge is red like blood, high-heeled shoes, eyeshadow, and a slip: these are a reminder and never objects for your pleasure.
❝ No doubt about it, Park Chan Wook is brilliant.
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