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
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
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...
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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
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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