Decision to Leave, 2022. Directed by Park Chan-wook Starring Park Hae-il, Tang Wei, Go Kyung-Pyo, Jung Yi-seo, Jeong Min Park, Seo Hyun-woo, Teo Yoo, and Lee Jung-hyun SYNOPSIS: From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, […]
Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave gets a new poster and trailer
Ahead of its release this October, a new poster and trailer have arrived online for Oldboy and The Handmaiden director Park Chan-wook’s South Korean thriller Decision to Leave. The film stars Park Hae-il as a detective investigating the death of a man who fell from the peak of a mountain. After meeting the dead man’s […]
Park Chan-wook returns with trailer for Decision to Leave
It has been six long years since a Park Chan-wook film last graced the big-screen with 2016’s five-star epic The Handmaiden, but now the Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, and Stoker director is about to drop Decision to Leave at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Starring Park Hae-il (Memories of Murder) and Tang Wei (Lust, Caution) […]
Movie Review – The Handmaiden (2016)
The Handmaiden, 2016. Directed by Park Chan-wook Starring Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha, and Jin-woong Jo. SYNOPSIS: Japanese heiress Hideko employs a new handmaiden, Sook-hee, but what she doesn’t know is that the girl is a pickpocket. She’s been recruited by a con artist who aims to marry her mistress and swindle her out […]
Robert Downey Jr. teaming with Park Chan-wook on The Sympathizer
Robert Downey is preparing to return to prestige work. After ending his time as Iron Man and starring in the bomb Dolittle, RDJ is now heading to television for a new drama series entitled The Sympathizer from filmmaker Park Chan-wook, who is on board as co-showrunner, along with Don McKellar, and will also direct the […]
Blu-ray Review – Oldboy Limited Edition (2003)
Oldboy, 2003. Directed by Park Chan-wook. Starring Choi Min-sik, Yu Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong, and Kim Byeong-ok. SYNOPSIS: Arrow Video unleashes Park Chan-wook’s influential revenge thriller Oldboy in an extensive Limited Edition 4-disc Blu-ray set with a couple of special extras. Although some of their recent standalone releases have been pushing the loyalty of collectors thanks […]
Park Chan-wook to direct ultraviolent western thriller from Bone Tomahawk’s S. Craig Zahler
According to Collider, Oldboy director Park Chan-wook is set to helm The Brigands of Rattlecreek, an “ultraviolent western thriller” from S. Craig Zahler, the writer-director of horror-western Bone Tomahawk and Brawl on Cell Block 99. The site reports that the film, which is being produced by Amazon Studios, “follows a sheriff and a doctor who seek […]
First trailer for The Little Drummer Girl starring Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsgard
Ahead of its US premiere next month, the BBC has released the first look trailer the upcoming adaptation of John le Carre’s novel The Little Drummer Girl. Directed by Park Chan-wook, the thriller series stars Florence Pugh, Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Shannon, Clare Holman, Kate Sumpter, and Michael Moshonov; watch it here… In “The Little Drummer Girl” […]
Park Chan-wook to direct John le Carre’s The Little Drummer Girl
Following on from the success of The Night Manager, AMC, the BBC and Ink Factory are teaming for another John Le Carre miniseries, with Oldboy director Park Chan-wook set to direct a six-episode adaptation of le Carre’s The Little Drummer Girl. According to The Daily Mail, Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth) has signed on for the […]
60th BFI London Film Festival 2016 Review – The Handmaiden (2016)
The Handmaiden, 2016 Directed by Park Chan-wook Starring Min-hee Kim, Kim Tae-ri, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo SYNOPSIS: During the Japanese occupation of Korea, young con-woman Sook-Hee is hired to be a wealthy heiress’s handmaiden at an isolated countryside estate. Joining forces with a fellow thief, she plans to swindle the heiress out of her fortune, […]
