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Category / Park, Chan-wook

July 14, 2022July 21, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Decision to Leave (2022)

  • Park, Chan-wook
  • 2022, Park Chan-wook, South Korea
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Park’s latest Cannes winner charts an alluringly new direction for him—a layered if at times convoluted crime procedural that hides an elusive romantic drama about the perverse relationship between a conflicted investigator and a seductive murder suspect.      

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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May 19, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

  • Park, Chan-wook
  • 2002, Park Chan-wook, South Korea
  • 1 Comment

Favouring a gritty aesthetic, Park’s ‘revenge is a dish best served cold’ first instalment of his Vengeance trilogy is a brutal and convoluted tragedy of interlocking fates as a child kidnapping goes awry.   

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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October 18, 2021December 11, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Lady Vengeance (2005)

  • Park, Chan-wook
  • 2005, Park Chan-wook, South Korea
  • 2 Comments

The third part of Park’s ‘Vengeance’ trilogy explores sin, atonement and poetic justice in the only way he can—through an intricately-plotted narrative, strong visual flair and explicit violence. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 8, 2021May 19, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Joint Security Area (2000)

  • Park, Chan-wook
  • 2000, South Korea
  • 2 Comments

Park’s breakthrough success feels like a cinematic page-turner, set in the context of an investigation on a shootout incident at the border separating North and South Korea.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 8, 2021October 18, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Handmaiden, The (2016)

  • Park, Chan-wook
  • 2016, South Korea
  • 4 Comments

A sexually-explicit Korean lesbian film that proves to be invitingly perverse under the hands of visual master Park Chan-wook.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 4, 2021October 18, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Stoker (2013)

  • Park, Chan-wook
  • 2013, UK, USA
  • 2 Comments

A disappointing effort by Korean auteur Park Chan-wook – an unfortunate case of too much style and too little substance.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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February 4, 2021May 19, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Thirst (2009)

  • Park, Chan-wook
  • 2009, South Korea
  • 5 Comments

An outrageous stunner, Park’s ‘vampire’ movie exploring the sin of desire and the limits of religious faith is a genre-bending and unsettlingly beautiful work.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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February 4, 2021October 18, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Oldboy (2003)

  • Park, Chan-wook
  • 2003, South Korea
  • 11 Comments

Still one of the finest achievements of contemporary Korean cinema, Park Chan-wook’s psychologically complex and violent revenge mystery will consume you whole.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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