Direction: Park Chan-wook

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Park Chan-wook. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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

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...

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6.1

577 votes

6.1

577 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...

Not rated

Not rated