He was born in South Korea, in 1963, Park chan-wook, one of the directors, axis, of Korean filmography.
More known for his revenge trilogy than for anything else, this includes the movies in his body “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance”, “Oldboy” and “Sympathy for Ms. Vengeance” He studied philosophy at Sogang University, where he started a film club called the Sogang Film Community, and published a thing or two about contemporary cinema.
His start as a director was with the movie of the year 1992 “The Moon Is … the Sun’s Dream” and five years later another “Trio”.
However, nothing would attract the attention of the press, until “Joint Security Area”, in the year 2000 that catapulted him into the stratosphere, being a resounding success, both in sales, criticism and in public.
And there the doors were opened, and there was no way to enter the great market with the right leg, and he did. In 2002 the first of the revenge trilogy appears “Sympathy for Mr. Revenge.”
The film narrates the life of a deaf-mute boy, who tries to help his sister who needs a kidney, then decides, since there is no one to transplant him, to go to the black market and have one taken from him and give it to him, to black market people use it, remove his kidney and keep his money. But he will take revenge.
Two years after the doors were opened, Park decides to redouble the bet, gambling all or nothing, presenting his feature film at the Cannes Film Festival “Oldboy”, which brings a maddeningly new proposition.
A really bad man is caught and taken to a room, there he is locked up for many months, years, nobody ever explains anything to him, he does not see a face, time passes. In order not to kill himself, the guy trains himself, learns to become a monk. So one day they leave him out, and play with him as if he were a mouse, he will have to find out how and why they did what they did to him.
The award in CannesHe was in second place, although Tarantino, another director, pushed for them to give it to him, however he was second.
In April of 2006 appear “Lady Vengeance”. Once released, everything was compressed into a large set, which has six CDs, two discs with stories and backstage of the films.
In that same year he was the official jury of the Venice International Film Festival and in February 2007, Park won the award in Berlin for his feature film “I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK”
His new movie will be called Evil Live.