Park Chan Wook Ranked
All 10 park chan wook films ranked from worst to best.
Park chan wook ranked. Few other korean directors have achieved as much fame outside of south korea as park chan wook and with good reason. Produced by park chan wook a staggeringly futuristic all star drama with chris evans and tilda swinton about a train with a microcosmic. But even in the short time since then it feels like that movement has grown exponentially stronger. Park chan wook ranked.
Here are his 10 films ranked from worst to best. The best the rest. A little over two years ago we wrote this 10 film primer on the korean new wave. He burst onto the international movie scene with 2003 s oldboy a haunting film about revenge and redemption that has been remade in every major film industry around the globe but oldboy is far from the acclaimed auteur s only significant work.
They have one child. October 19 2016 1 16 pm. Born august 23 1963 is a south korean film director screenwriter producer and former film critic one of the most acclaimed and popular filmmakers in his native country park is best known for his films joint security area 2000 thirst 2009 the handmaiden 2016 and what has become known as the vengeance. Classics of modern south korean cinema ranked.
Vengeance but worms its way into your brain. His films are often tragic incredibly beautiful poetic brutal immaculately shot and full of dark humor. Jessica kiang and oliver lyttelton. The film is one of the least known by the director probably on purpose.
I decided that as one of the most acclaimed directors from korea i. Park chan wook ranked from best to worst by johnnysmac created 09 jan 2015 updated 22 nov 2018 public chan wook park is a very inventive director responsible for some of the most entertaining masterpieces of the 21st century. He is married to eun hee kim. I saw oldboy for the first time earlier this year and really enjoyed it but it wasn t until a few weeks ago when watching a film called pieta that put me in the mood for some more korean cinema.
I ve been on a bit of a park chan wook binge recently. The films of park chan wook ranked. Less flashy and somehow even darker than its predecessors it doesn t deliver the satisfying pulpy punch of an oldboy or a sympathy for mr. Trio 1997 everybody is allowed to have a blunder and this quirky comedy was park chan wook s.
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