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Profile of Chan-wook Park on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Chan-wook Park  
   
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Date of Birth: 23rd August 1963
   
Place of Birth: South Korea
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Park Chan-wook
Hangul: 박찬욱
Hanja: 朴贊郁
Revised Romanization: Bak Chan-uk
McCune-Reischauer: Pak Ch'an-uk

Park Chan-wook is a South Korean director and screenwriter born August 23, 1963. He grew up in Seoul and studied philosophy at the Sogang University. Whilst there, he started a club called the 'Film Gang' and published a number of studies on contemporary cinema. After graduating, he embarked on a career as a movie critic, before becoming an assistant director in 1988 on Yu Yeong-Jin's "Kkamdong" and Kwak Jae-yong's "A Sketch of a Rainy Day".

His directorial debut was 1992's The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream. His recent movie, Oldboy won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

Filmography

Director

  • The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream (1992)
  • Trio (1997)
  • Judgement (1999) (short film)
  • Joint Security Area (2000)
  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
  • If You Were Me (2003) - segment "Never Ending Peace And Love"
  • Oldboy (2003)
  • Three... Extremes (2004) - segment "Cut"
  • Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005)

Screenwriter

  • Anarchists (2000)
  • The Humanist (2000)

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