Screenplay: Park Chan-wook

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Park Chan-wook. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Oldboy

2003 · Movie · 120 min. · South Korea

Direction Park Chan-wook

Cast Choi Min-sik · Yoo Ji-tae · Kang Hye-jung · Ji Dae-han

Plot '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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

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

Plot 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....

6.6

7K votes

6.6

7K 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

6.2

4K votes

6.2

4K votes

The Truth Beneath

2016 · Movie · 102 min. · South Korea

Direction Lee Kyoung-mi

Cast Son Ye-jin · Kim Ju-hyuk · Shin Ji‑hoon · Choi Yu-hwa

Plot The seemingly picture-perfect world of a politician and his wife is shattered when their daughter goes missing.

6.0

43 votes

6.0

43 votes

Crush and Blush

2008 · Movie · 101 min. · South Korea

Direction Lee Kyoung-mi

Cast Kong Hyo-jin · Bang Eun-jin · Hwang Jin-hee · Lee Jong-hyuk

Plot 29 year-old Me-sook is the most unpopular teacher at school. She used to be a Russian language teacher at a high school, but was relegated to a middle school to...

5.8

59 votes

5.8

59 votes

If You Were Me

2003 · Movie · 110 min. · South Korea

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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

War and Revolt

2024 · Movie · min. · South Korea

Direction Kim Sang-man

Cast Gang Dong-won · Park Jung-min · Cha Seung-won · Kim Shin-rok

Plot Tells the story of Jong Ryeo (Park Jung Min), the son of the highest-ranking warrior family in Joseon, and his body servant Cheon Yeong (Kang Dong Won) who grew up...

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The Anarchists

2000 · Movie · 104 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Yong-sik

Cast Jang Dong-gun · Kim Sang-jung · Lee Beom-soo · Kim In-kwon

Plot In 1924 Shanghai, five members of a rebel group called the Anarchists are in the pursuit of their own individual freedom, and a society with no authority or domination. During...

Not rated

Not rated

Threesome

1997 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea

Direction Park Chan-wook

Cast Jeong Seon-kyeong · Kim Bu-seon · Kim Min-jong · Seo Kwon-Sun

Plot 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...

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Not rated