Park Chan-wook

Park Chan-wook is a South Korean film director and writer. He was born in South Korea on August 23, 1963. His debut film was The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream, which was made in 1992. His movie Thirst is named as one of the top 10 movies of the year by time magazine. The movie is how a man turned in to a vampire because of a failed medical experiment. The http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0762073/

Before becoming a director, Chan-wook was well- known as a film critic. His nick name was Mr. Vengeance. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661791/bio He studied Philosophy in college, and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo inspired him to become a film maker. His latest film is Thirst, in which a priest is turned into vampire. This film won Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

In general, Chan-wook's movies are known to have elements of horror.

“Quite often people see things that aren’t in my movies,” http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/movies/general/view.bg?articleid=1191644&srvc=home&position=also

• 1992 - Written and directed The Moon...The sun's dream

• 1997 - Written and directed Trio

• 1999 - Written and directed Judgment

• [[2000] - Written and Directed Joint Security Area, Written Anarchists

• 2001 - Written The Humanist

• 2002 - Written and directed Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, written A Bizarre Love Triangle

• 2003 - Written and directed If You Were Me and Oldboy

• 2004 - Written and directed Three... Extremes

• 2005 - Written and directed Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

• 2006 - Written and directed I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK

• 2008 - Written Crush and Blush

• 2009 - Written and directed Thirst