Park Chan-wook

Known for: Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016)

Park Chan-wook directed the Vengeance Trilogy — Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003), Lady Vengeance (2005) — a formal investigation of violence, moral reciprocity, and genre that established him as one of the significant filmmakers working in contemporary cinema. Oldboy won the Grand Prix at Cannes. The Handmaiden (2016), drawn from Victorian crime fiction, surprised even his admirers with its formal density.