cycle of vengeance

His masterpiece 'Oldboy' and 'The Handmaiden' obsessively deconstruct cycles of revenge, showing how vengeance perpetuates suffering across generations.

Films like 'Kill Bill' and 'Inglourious Basterds' celebrate elaborate revenge narratives while examining the psychological toll and moral ambiguity of retribution.

His spaghetti westerns, particularly 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,' explore revenge as an inescapable cycle within morally complex frontier worlds.