Park Chan-wook1

Park Chan-wook is a South Korean filmmaker and former film critic, regarded as a leading figure in South Korean and 21st-century world cinema, He blends crime, mystery, and thriller elements with other genres, including Joint Security Area (2000), the “Vengeance Trilogy” — Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003), and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) — as well as Thirst (2009), The Handmaiden (2016), No Other Choice (2026) and Decision to Leave (2022).