Park Chan-wook is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, producer, and former film critic. He is considered one of the most prominent filmmakers of South Korean cinema as well as 21st-century world cinema. His films, which often blend crime, mystery and thriller with other genres, and have gained notoriety for their cinematography, framing, black humor and often brutal subject matters.
Park in 2013
Park at the Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya 2009
Park presenting The Handmaiden at the 2016 Lumière Film Festival
South Korean films have been heavily influenced by such events and forces as the Korea under Japanese rule, the Korean War, government censorship, the business sector, globalization, and the democratization of South Korea.
Movie theater in Sincheon
Poster for Viva Freedom! (1946)
Poster for The Housemaid (1960)