Park Chan-wook

Exclaim!'s 20 Best Films of 2022

PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2022

Horror and cinematic events reigned supreme in 2022. For the first time in what has felt like a long time, movies dominated conversations o...

'Decision to Leave' Is Wonderfully Excessive

Directed by Park Chan-wook

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022

Beginning with the image of a man splayed out at the bottom of a mountain, Decision to Leave wastes no time. Although it initially appears...

Exclaim!'s 30 Best Films of the 2010s

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2019

It's hard to believe that the 2010s even happened, but the decade that we still lump together with the 2000s had its own distinctive qualit...

The Handmaiden

Directed by Park Chan-wook

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2016

South Korean master Park Chan-wook returns with The Handmaiden, a dazzling queer revenge epic and his first film since his English-language...

'Oldboy' Score Treated to Vinyl Release via Invada/Milan

PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2014

Over a decade after first hitting ears in cinema houses, composer Cho Young-Wuk's score for South Korean revenge thriller Oldboy is making...

Thirst

Park Chan-wook

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2009

In an oversaturated sea of bloodsuckers, how do the ones with purposeful bite get noticed? Had Thirst not come out during the media's "year...

Lady Vengeance

Park Chan-wook

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

Good luck to anyone that gets on Park Chan-Wook’s bad side. The Korean director’s tales of victims seeking retribution as exemplified in hi...

Lady Vengeance

Park Chan-wook

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

I suppose everybody (by which I mean critics, film buffs, Quentin Tarantino, etc.) has been blowing this Park Chan-wook thing out of propor...