From Decision to Leave to Oldboy, the work of Park Chan-wook is rich and deep: how do all his movies rank?
When it comes to acclaimed filmmakers who tend to make films not in the English language yet still find themselves popular internationally, few are in the same league as Park Chan-wook. He's a South Korean filmmaker who, alongside fellow South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, helped put the country's cinema on the map in a big way in the early 2000s. In the decades since, South Korean films and TV shows have experienced new heights of popularity and critical acclaim internationally.
It's set in Busan and is a crime/thriller with a dash of romance, revolving around a plot that sees a gangster stealing the mistress of his boss and his money, with the two then going on the run from him. It's not terrible for a debut feature, but it doesn't leave much of a mark, and Park himself has even spoken out about not liking the finished film.
It takes heavy inspiration from the films of Alfred Hitchcock, is well-acted, and looks fantastic due to Park's style and the cinematography of regular collaborator Chung Chung-hoon. But unfortunately, it's dragged down considerably by the screenplay, which makes minor characters into ridiculous stereotypes and gives the talented cast some really clunky lines to deliver.
7 'Three… Extremes' Given Three...Extremes is a horror anthology movie, it's a little hard to rank within Park Chan-wook's filmography. He was one of its credited directors, but due to it featuring three different short films contained within one two-hour film , he was only responsible for part of it, with the other two segments being directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Fruit Chan and Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike.
5 'Thirst' Putting a very modern spin on classic vampire lore, Thirst is a quite thrilling and underrated Park Chan-wook movie that doesn't always get as much love as some of his other movies. It's about a priest being reborn as a vampire and how his desire to drink human blood clashes with the values he held during his previous human life.
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