Kevin Paul
Park Chan-wook
FilmmakerKnown for:
Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016)
Education:
Sogang University (philosophy); no formal film training
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.
Park Chan-wook's Gear List(1)
ARRI
Connection Source
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Connection note
Park shot "The Handmaiden" (2016) and "Decision to Leave" (2022) on the ARRI ALEXA. His cinematographer Chung Chung-hoon has discussed the system in published interviews.
Product description
Introduced in 2010, the ARRI ALEXA is a digital cinema camera that rapidly became the industry standard for high-end film and television production. Its large-format sensor and proprietary ALEV color science produced an image quality that many cinematographers considered closer to film than any preceding digital system. It has been used to shoot Academy Award-winning films including Gravity, Birdman, and Parasite.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
