Direction: Park Chan-wook
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Park Chan-wook. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 23
Oldboy
2003 · Movie · 120 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Choi Min-sik · Yoo Ji-tae · Kang Hye-jung · Ji Dae-han
Synopsis 'Oldboy' features Choi Min-sik as a Korean businessman who is suddenly kidnapped and confined in a cell with only a television set. He makes various efforts to escape and even attempts to commit suicide, but all end up in failure....
7.9
67K votes
7.9
67K votes
The Handmaiden
2016 · Movie · 145 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Kim Min-hee · Kim Tae-ri · Ha Jung-woo · Cho Jin-woong
Synopsis 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle. But the maid has a secret....
7.6
14K votes
7.6
14K votes
Joint Security Area (JSA)
2000 · Movie · 110 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Lee Byung-hun · Song Kang-ho · Lee Young-ae · Shin Ha-kyun
Synopsis In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier. But the 11 bullets found in the bodies, together with the 5 remaining bullets in the assassin's magazine clip,...
7.2
4K votes
7.2
4K votes
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
2005 · Movie · 112 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Lee Young-ae · Choi Min-sik · Tony Barry · Anne Cordiner
Synopsis Lady Vengeance tells the story of Kum-ja, a woman who takes revenge after serving 13 years in jail in place of an evil man who abducts and kills a 6-year-old boy. Two thirds of the story shows how Kum-ja gets...
7.2
15K votes
7.2
15K votes
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2002 · Movie · 129 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Song Kang-ho · Shin Ha-kyun · Doona Bae · Lim Ji-eun
Synopsis Mr. Vengeance tells the story of Ryu a deaf-mute, has a sister that needs a kidney transplant. Recently laid off at his factory, he has to find other ways to obtain 10 million won to purchase a kidney from the...
7.2
15K votes
7.2
15K votes
Decision to Leave
2022 · Movie · 138 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Tang Wei · Park Hae-Il · Park Yong-woo · Yoo Seung-mok
Synopsis A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.
6.8
6K votes
6.8
6K votes
The Little Drummer Girl (TV Miniseries)
2018 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Florence Pugh · Alexander Skarsgård · Michael Shannon · Clare Holman
Synopsis TV Miniseries (2018). 6 Episodes. This miniseries adaptation of John Le Carré novel centers on an actress (Florence Pugh) in the late ’70s who becomes embroiled in a plot involving a mysterious stranger Khalil (Alexander Skarsgård) and a controlling spy...
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
2006 · Movie · 105 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Lim Su-jeong · Rain · Choi Hee-jin · Lee Yong-nyeo
Synopsis Young-goon is a patient at a psychiatric clinic because she is convinced she is a cyborg. She refuses food, charging her batteries instead with electric shocks from a transistor radio. Naturally, this does nothing to improve her health. Undaunted, the...
6.6
7K votes
6.6
7K votes
Stoker
2013 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Mia Wasikowska · Matthew Goode · Nicole Kidman · Jacki Weaver
Synopsis India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) is a teenage girl mourning the death of her father (Dermot Mulroney) who deals with her uncle Charles (Matthew Goode) who mysteriously shows up to meet the family and decides to stay with India and her...
6.6
26K votes
6.6
26K votes
Judgment (S)
1999 · Movie · 26 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Choi Hak-rak · Gi Ju-bong · Ko In-bae · Sun-mi Myeong
Synopsis Park Chan-wook draws on a tragic event who took place in South Korea to ironically criticize the greed of rampant capitalism. In 1995, in Seoul, a huge shopping centre, the Sampung department stores collapsed, killing 500 people and injuring many...
6.5
466 votes
6.5
466 votes
Three... Extremes
2004 · Movie · 128 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Fruit Chan · Park Chan-wook · Takashi Miike
Cast Bai Ling · Pauline Lau · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Meme Tian
Synopsis A beautiful female novelist, still guilt-ridden over the childhood death of her twin sister, receives a mysterious invitation to meet at the site of her sister’s demise… more… A retired actress longing to retain her beauty seeks the rejuvenating effects...
6.4
4K votes
6.4
4K votes
Thirst
2009 · Movie · 133 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Song Kang-ho · Kim Ok-bin · Shin Ha-kyun · Kim Hae-sook
Synopsis Beloved and devoted priest from a small town volunteers for a medical experiment which fails and turns him into a vampire. Physical and psychological changes lead to his affair with a wife of his childhood friend who is repressed and...
6.2
4K votes
6.2
4K votes
The Sympathizer
2024 · Series · 55 min. · Canada
Direction Park Chan-wook · Fernando Meirelles · Marc Munden
Cast Hoa Xuande · Robert Downey Jr. · Fred Nguyen Khan · Sandra Oh
Synopsis TV Miniseries (2024). 7 Episodes. An espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States. An adaptation of the...
6.1
577 votes
6.1
577 votes
If You Were Me
2003 · Movie · 110 min. · South Korea
Direction Jeong Jae-eun · Park Chan-wook · Park Jin-pyo · Park Kwang-su
Cast Baek Jong-hak · Byeon Jeong-Su · Jeong Ae-Yeon · Ji Jin-hee
5.6
125 votes
5.6
125 votes
Life is But a Dream (S)
2022 · Movie · 22 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Kim Ok-bin · Park Jung-min · Woo Sang-gi · Kwon Ji-hoon
Synopsis An undertaker who needs woods to build a coffin for the savior of his village digs up an abandoned grave. But while doing so, he accidentally awakens the ghost of an ancient swordsman. Now the ghost tries to take back...
5.5
31 votes
5.5
31 votes
Night Fishing
2011 · Movie · 30 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook · Park Chan-kyong
Cast Lee Jung-hyun · Oh Kwang-rok
Synopsis A fantastical tale that begins with a middle-aged man fishing one afternoon and then, hours later at night, catches the body of a woman. The panicked man tries to undo the intertwined fishing line, but he gets more and more...
5.5
265 votes
5.5
265 votes
Day Trip (S)
2013 · Movie · 19 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook · Park Chan-kyong
Cast Song Kang-ho · Jeon Hyo-jeong
Synopsis Day Trip stars a bewigged Song Kang-ho and Jeon Hyo-jeong as a vocal teacher and his student who head into the mountains to train.
5.3
82 votes
5.3
82 votes
A Rose Reborn (S)
2014 · Movie · 20 min. · Italy
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Jack Huston · Daniel Wu · Ottaviano Blitch · Antonio Bracciani
Synopsis A Rose Reborn was directed by acclaimed director Park Chan-wook exclusively for Ermenegildo Zegna. Discover the quintessence of sharp style, elegance and sophistication.
4.4
91 votes
4.4
91 votes
Bitter Sweet Seoul
2014 · Documentary · 63 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook · Park Chan-kyong
Synopsis This documentary is a crowdsourced film about life in the Korean megalopolis.
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Threesome
1997 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea
Direction Park Chan-wook
Cast Jeong Seon-kyeong · Kim Bu-seon · Kim Min-jong · Seo Kwon-Sun
Synopsis Han 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. Han has tried numerous times to kill himself but nothing ever works. When he witnesses...
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