What is the best Park Chan-wook film?

By YPB Team

Vote for the greatest film by Park Chan-wook — the South Korean visionary behind the Vengeance Trilogy and some of the most stunning and provocative cinema of the 21st century.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

The haunting 2002 first chapter of Park's Vengeance Trilogy, a tragedy of colliding grievances where a deaf-mute's desperate act spirals into unstoppable catastrophe.

Oldboy

Park's 2003 Cannes Grand Prix-winning masterpiece following a man's fifteen-year imprisonment and obsessive search for answers, featuring one of cinema's most shocking revelations.

Lady Vengeance

The 2005 Vengeance Trilogy finale following a woman's elaborate prison-planned revenge, combining gothic beauty with moral complexity and stunning visual style.

Thirst

Park's 2009 vampire-priest horror that won the Jury Prize at Cannes, blending religious guilt, sensuality, and transgression in an entirely original take on the genre.

Stoker

Park's 2013 English-language debut starring Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska, a Gothic psychological thriller of breathtaking visual precision and Hitchcockian menace.

The Handmaiden

Park's 2016 erotic thriller set in Japanese-occupied Korea, a film of labyrinthine twists, sumptuous imagery, and a deeply humane core beneath its elaborate deceptions.

Decision to Leave

Park's 2022 romantic-noir love story starring Tang Wei and Park Hae-il, winner of Best Director at Cannes for its melancholy investigation of desire, obsession, and loss.

No Other Choice

Park's acclaimed 2025 thriller that critics praised even above Decision to Leave, continuing his late-career renaissance with a complex moral puzzle about loyalty and identity.

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