Park Chan-wook
Park Chan-wook is a South Korean director and screenwriter born August 23, 1963. He grew up in Seoul and studied philosophy at the Sogang University. Whilst there, he started a club called the 'Film Gang' and published a number of studies on contemporary cinema. After graduating, he embarked on a career as a movie critic, before becoming an assistant director in 1988 on Yu Yeong-Jin's "Kkamdong" and Kwak Jae-yong's "A Sketch of a Rainy Day".
His directorial debut was 1992's The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream. His recent movie, Oldboy won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Filmography
Director
- The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream (1992)
- Trio (1997)
- Judgement (1999) (short film)
- Joint Security Area (2000)
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
- If You Were Me (2003) - segment "Never Ending Peace And Love"
- Oldboy (2003)
- Three... Extremes (2004) - segment "Cut"
- Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) - filming
Screenwriter
- Anarchists (2000)
- The Humanist (2000)