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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.

  1. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance — ranked #11
    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.
  2. Oldboy — ranked #22
    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.
  3. Lady Vengeance — ranked #33
    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.
  4. Thirst — ranked #44
    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.
  5. Stoker — ranked #55
    Stoker
    Park's 2013 English-language debut starring Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska, a Gothic psychological thriller of breathtaking visual precision and Hitchcockian menace.
  6. The Handmaiden — ranked #66
    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.
  7. Decision to Leave — ranked #77
    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.
  8. No Other Choice — ranked #88
    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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