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Years active
  
1992–present

Revised Romanization
  
Bak Beung-sik

Name
  
Park Heung-sik

Spouse
  
Siblings
  
Park Kwang-sik

Hangul
  
박흥식

McCune–Reischauer
  
Pak Hung-sik

Role
  
Film director

Occupation
  
Film director, screenwriter

Movies
  
The Railroad, The Twins, Twenty Again, Haroo

Nominations
  
Grand Bell Award for Best Planning

Similar People
  
Jung In‑gi, Jong‑hak Baek, Kim Hye‑na, Kim Kang‑woo, Son Tae‑young

Park Heung-sik (born 1962) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.

Park studied at the Free University of Berlin, where he received a master's degree in filmology. Having garnered favourable comments for his short films at various film festivals, he made the transition to features with his 2005 debut The Twins, though it only received a lukewarm response from critics and audiences. For his second feature, The Railroad, Park drew on his own experiences and set out to create a film with a story that he wanted to tell. The Railroad was co-produced and co-directed by his wife, film editor Park Gok-ji, and premiered at the 11th Pusan International Film Festival in October 2006. Paolo Bertolin of The Korea Times commented that while Park took his time in delivering the film's subdued climax, he "nevertheless displays an assured command of visual composition and emotional punctuation". Following a limited release in Korean cinemas in May 2007, The Railroad screened at the 25th Torino Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI award as well as Best Actor for the performance of Kim Kang-woo.

Filmography

  • The Twins (2005)
  • The Railroad (2007)
  • Twenty Again (2015)
  • References

    Park Heung-sik (born 1962) Wikipedia


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