Decision To Leave

Everything starts with a fall. A man who was climbing a mountain was found dead, crashed on the ground. Was it an accident? Suicide? Homicide? Detective Hae-jun investigates the mystery. He is a gentle man, the youngest inspector in Busan, happily married and devoted to his work. When he arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect that the dead man’s Chinese wife Seo-rae may know more than she initially lets on, but this attractive, charismatic woman couldn’t be a murderer. Hae-jun gets drawn into more than just the case as he surveys Seo-rae and becomes obsessed with her quirks. As he crosses the professional line to learn more about Seo-rae, he starts to make mistakes and finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire, proving that the darkest mysteries lurk inside the human heart.

Park Chan-wook

Film director, screenwriter, producer and former film critic Park Chan-wook was born in Seoul in 1963. He studied philosophy at Sogang University and worked as a film critic while pursuing a career as an assistant director and scriptwriter. With the success of Joint Security Area, his movie career hit the fast track to stardom. Each installment of his Vengeance Trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) was a hit. He filmed his following feature Stoker (2013) in the USA and returning to Korea, he made The Handmaiden (2016) that earned him his third invitation to the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival. In 2018, he moved to television with the mini-series The Little Drummer Girl for the BBC. He was invited again to Cannes in 2022 with his latest film Decision To Leave, for which he won the award for Best Director.