Park Chan-wook
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Park Chan-wook is a South Korean filmmaker and former film critic. Widely regarded as a leading figure in South Korean and 21st-century world cinema, he is known for films that blend crime, mystery, a
Park at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Park at the Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya 2009
Park presenting The Handmaiden at the 2016 Lumière Film Festival
Park in 2025
The Handmaiden
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The Handmaiden is a 2016 South Korean erotic historical psychological thriller film directed, co-written and co-produced by Park Chan-Wook and starring Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo and Cho Jin
Park Chan-wook
…work following The Vengeance Trilogy was also commercially and critically successful both in South Korea and internationally, such as Thirst (2009), The Handmaiden (2016), which earned Park the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and Decision to Leave (2022), which won the Best Director award…
Seodaemun Prison is featured in the film as a psychiatric hospital