Park Chan-wook
Park Chan -wook ( born August 23, 1963 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and film producer.
- 3.1 2001
- 3.2 2002
- 3.3 2003
- 3.4 2004
- 3.5 2005
- 3.6 2006
- 3.7 2007
- 3.8 2008
- 3.9 2009
Life
Park Chan -wook has grown up in Seoul and studied philosophy at Sogang University, where he. A film club, founded the " Sogang film community," and published several articles about contemporary cinema His original plan to become a film critic, he gave up when he saw Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock and then itself decided to make films.
Park 's first film The Moon is ... The Sun 's Dream in 1992 and his second feature film trio, he made five years later, were commercial failures. Only with the Joint Security Area in 2000, he managed the breakthrough. The film pulled in South Korea six million viewers in the cinemas and presented so that a new record, which was previously held by Shiri. The following year, but he was already replaced by Friend. Joint Security Area deals with a sensitive issue in South Korea, the division of the country. In Europe and America, however, the park remained until his film Oldboy (2003) a secret. The Western standards extremely brutal revenge drama Oldboy was awarded to the film festival of Cannes with the Grand Jury Prize. At the same time it is the second part of the revenge trilogy whose initial Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance made ( 2002). The third part, Lady Vengeance, followed in 2005. Four years later received park for the vampire story Thirst an invitation to compete in the 62nd International Film Festival of Cannes and won the Jury Prize jointly with Andrea Arnold for her film Fish Tank.
Park was in an interview in 2004, among other things, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Balzac and Kurt Vonnegut as influences on his career.
Quentin Tarantino is an avowed fan of the filmmaker. In 2004, he tried to convince them to forgive selbige the Golden Palm at Oldboy as president of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. This he was not able, the award went to Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore. Oldboy won the Grand Jury Prize.
2011 turned the park with his brother Chan - kyong the film Night Fishing ( Paranmanjang; night fishing). This will be the first feature film that was shot entirely with the iPhone 4. The film, in which 80 people participated, was shot in 10 days and the production cost 102,000 euros. At the Berlinale 2011, the film received the Golden Bear for the best short film. 2013 led parking directed the music video " V " of the singer Lee Jung -hyun, who played the lead role in Night Fishing. In April 2012, Park was known to the Director for the U.S. remake of the French thriller - drama to take the ax by Costa -Gavras.
Just like his colleague director Bong Joon-ho is Park Chan -Wook member of the Korean Democratic Labour Party, a left-wing, small party in South Korea. In 2002, he even stepped into the presidential campaign of the party on television in appearance.
Filmography
As a director
As author
As a producer
- 2006: I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
- 2008: Crush and Blush
- 2009: Thirst ( Bak - Jwi / Thirst )
Awards
2001
- Deauville Asian Film Festival, France Lotus Award for Best Film for Joint Security Area
- Seattle International Film Festival New Director 's Showcase Special Jury Prize for Joint Security Area
2002
- Blue Ribbon Awards, Japan Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Joint Security Area
- Seattle International Film Festival Emerging Masters Showcase Award
2003
- Fantasia Festival Best Asian Film for Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
- Philadelphia Film Festival Jury Award for Best Feature Film, for Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2004
- Film Festival of Cannes Grand Jury Prize for Oldboy
- Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Director, for Oldboy
- Bergen International Film Festival Audience Award for Oldboy
- Daejong Film Awards, South Korea Daejong Film Award Best Director, for Oldboy
- Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival Best film of Oldboy
- Stockholm International Film Festival Audience Award for Oldboy
2005
- Bangkok International Film Festival Golden Kinnaree Award for Best Director, for Oldboy
- Venice Film Festival CinemAvvenire Award for Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
2006
- Bangkok International Film Festival Golden Kinnaree Award for Best Director for Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
- Fanta Porto, Portugal Orient Express Section Grand Prize for the best film, for Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
- Sarasota Film Festival Audience Award for Best in World Cinema, for Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
2007
- Berlin International Film Festival Alfred Bauer Award, for I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
- Montréal Festival of New Cinema Z Tele Grand Prize Feature Film Award, for I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
- Sitges Catalonian International Film Festival, Spain Best Screenplay, for I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
2008
- Fanta Porto, Portugal International Fantasy Film Award - Special Mention, for I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
2009
- Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize, for thirst
Occupation
A special feature of his films is that he works regularly with the same actors. These include:
- Song Kang -ho ( Joint Security Area, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Thirst )
- Shin Ha - kyun ( Joint Security Area, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Thirst )
- Choi Min -sik ( Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance )
- Kang Hye- jeong ( Oldboy, Three ... Extremes, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance )
Furthermore, the films of Park Chan -Wook, and his colleague and close friend of Kim Jee - woon often share the Cast:
- Lee Byung -hun ( Joint Security Area, Three ... Extremes ), Oh Kwang- rok and Oh Dal -su ( Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK, Thirst ) play in Kim's A Bittersweet Life with.
- Yeom Jeong-a plays the stepmother in A Tale of Two Sisters by Kim, as well as the vampire actress in parks segment of Three ... Extremes.
- Lim Su- jeong plays the lead role in I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK, as well as a starring role in A Tale of Two Sisters.