Actress Lee Young-ae and others reveal behind-the-scenes stories of working with Korean cinema master director Park Chan-wook.
On the 9th, the second part of SBS documentary NEW OLD BOY (New Oldboy) Park Chan-wook, which focuses solely on director Park Chan-wook, will air. In part 2 of New-oldboy Park Chan-wook, it takes an in-depth look at how Park Chan-wook, who hesitated to pursue a career as a film director because of his "introverted personality", was able to grow into a world-class master.
Longtime collaborators who worked with Park Chan-wook for an average of more than 20 years also appear. From Choi Min-sik, Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Lee Young-ae, Shin Ha-kyun, Son Ye-jin, Tang Wei, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Park Jung-min, Kim Hae-sook, to Kim Byung-ok. Actors who worked with director Park Chan-wook appear in large numbers to convey Park Chan-wook's unique directing philosophy and working methods. Lee Young-ae confessed, "After Dae Jang Geum, during a time when it was difficult to immerse myself in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, the OO the director gave me gave me great strength to immerse myself." She also told an anecdote about repeating rehearsals dozens of times for the short line 'so I might seem kind,' describing Park Chan-wook's distinctive, delicate, and perfect directing world.
Tang Wei, who said at the Cannes Film Festival "Director Park Chan-wook is the person who made my life complete," came to Korea to participate in an interview for the documentary. Tang Wei recalled that during the filming of Decision to Leave, when she struggled with unfamiliar Korean lines, the greatest help was the files the director recorded by reading each line himself and gave her. Tang Wei said, "I listened thousands of times to the intonation and emotional highs and lows contained in each line the director wrote," and described how working with him deeply influenced her.
Longtime colleagues who have worked with Park Chan-wook for more than 20 years on average also join. Ryu Seung-wan, who admired Park Chan-wook as a junior and is now a fellow director; screenwriter Jung Seo-kyung; Jo Young-wook, a 30-year friend of Park Chan-wook and music director; production designer Ryu Seong-hee, who won the Vulcan Award at the Cannes Film Festival; director Lee Kyung-mi of The School Nurse Files and The Truth Beneath; makeup director Song Jong-hee, who completed Choi Min-sik's shaggy hair in Oldboy; and editor Kim Sang-beom, who has known director Park Chan-wook for 40 years since their college days. Those who watched Park Chan-wook closely on set tell honest stories about director Park Chan-wook's extraordinary leadership and intense creative process.
This documentary closely follows not only the process in which Park Chan-wook conceives ideas and completes a screenplay, but also the principles he has consistently upheld during the writing stage, the fiercely continuous process of revisions at every moment, and his unique manner of speaking and directing philosophy that can only be confirmed on set.
The second part of New-oldboy Park Chan-wook will air Thursday night at 10:20 p.m. on the 9th. In this documentary, the first among the three major broadcasters to focus solely on director Park Chan-wook, it looks into Park Chan-wook's creative code as he creates always-new worlds through the decisive moments in which he makes films.<
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