He said he learned to accelerate the production process and completed filming in 480 hours. In 2013, Park directed his first English-language film, Stoker. It was nominated for Berlinale Shorts during the 2011 Berlin Film Festival and won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film. The film was co-directed with Park's younger brother, Park Chan-kyong, who had no prior directing experience. In 2011, Park said his new fantasy-horror film Paranmanjang ( Night Fishing) was shot entirely on the iPhone. He considered directing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy but ultimately turned it down. In 2009, Park directed the vampire film Thirst, starring Song Kang-ho, which won the Prix du Jury (alongside Fish Tank, directed by Andrea Arnold) at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Park at the Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya 2009 The award, named after the festival's founder and in praise of works that introduce new perspectives, went to Park for his film, I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK. In February 2007, Park won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2006, Park was the member of official section jury at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival. Since 2004, Park has been an owner of the filmmaking company Moho Film, which participated in the production of Snowpiercer (2013) and The Handmaiden (2016). In a May 2004 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Park listed Sophocles, Shakespeare, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Balzac and Kurt Vonnegut as influences on his career.
Tarantino also regards Park's Joint Security Area to be one of 'the top twenty films made since 1992'. Oldboy garnered the Grand Prix, Cannes's second-highest honour. As the head judge at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, he personally pushed for Park's Oldboy to be awarded the Palme d'Or (the honour eventually went to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11). American director Quentin Tarantino is an avowed fan of Park. Lady Vengeance was distributed by Tartan Films for the United States theatrical release in April 2006. The films concern the utter futility of vengeance and how it wreaks havoc on the lives of those involved. Park won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival for Oldboy. It was not originally intended to be a trilogy. Park's unofficially-titled Vengeance Trilogy consists of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005). Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is the result of this creative freedom. This success made it possible for Park to make his next film more independently. In 2000, Park directed Joint Security Area, which was a great success both commercially and critically, even surpassing Kang Je-gyu's Shiri as the then most-watched film ever made in South Korea. Park's early films were not successful at the box office, and he pursued a career as a film critic to make a living. After five years, he made his second film, Trio. Hopefully, the rest of the films turn out better than this.Park's debut feature film was The Moon Is. the Sun's Dream (1992). It suffers due to its bloated runtime, its drained tension, and incoherent structure, but it is a very fun time and Choi Dong-hoon tried his best with this one. Nevertheless, while I don't hate Tazza: The High Rollers and it definitely had some very good qualities out of it, it was ultimately, at its core, incredibly disappointing for me and I wanted a little more consistency out of it. Choi Dong-hoon was good at trying and it felt like he was doing his best, but then he got a bit caught up in his own drive and it led to incoherent narrative around the half hour. By then, the tension was draining and it felt like a chore to wait for it to actually be revealed. Unfortunately, because of its bloated runtime, it feels like everything is going on for too long just to be more serious and extravagant than it actually was. There was this really clever drive to it that felt like it was going to keep running throughout the 2 hours. I loved the acting in this, Cho Sung-woo and Kim Hye-soo are both amazing at their roles and bring so much charisma. The transitions and cuts matched a lot, a lot of tension was built up, especially with the film's concept of gambling. To be honest, it's not horrible, I did find it pretty engaging in the beginning. You can't always trust everyone, it seems XD Thought I'd like this film a lot more than I wanted to, since Min Yoongi said this was his favorite film.