PARK: (Laughs) When we designed the house, we made a room specifically for me to write in. Through an interpreter, he discussed making 'Decision to Leave' (one of the biggest box-office hits of 2022 in South Korea), his role in expanding Korean cinema's footprint and why - regardless of bloody hammers or octopuses eaten whole - love has always really been his main subject.ĪP: The room you write in has been compared to the room that traps the protagonist of 'Oldboy.' Is that true? At the Cannes Film Festival in May, it won him best director.Īhead of the film's release in theaters Friday, Park met a reporter during a break at the New York Film Festival. Intricate and mischievous, 'Decision to Leave' is yet another genre tapestry for the masterful Park to make an elegant plaything of. Their evolving relationship plays out as an investigation. Park Hae-il plays a Busan police detective who becomes infatuated with a murder subject (Tang Wei). The film, which is South Korea's Oscar submission, is a twisty noir entwined with a love story. It lacks the brutal violence of 'Oldboy' (2003) or the eroticism of 'The Handmaiden' (2016). His latest, 'Decision to Leave,' is in some ways more restrained than Park's previous films.

NEW YORK - Long before Bong Joon Ho's 'Parasite' triumphed at the Oscars and 'Squid Game' circled the globe, Park Chan-wook was astonishing worldwide audiences with his sumptuously stylistic, outrageously violent and devilishly elaborate vision of Korean cinema.

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