vendetta and revenge

His masterwork 'Oldboy' and 'The Handmaiden' are obsessive explorations of revenge cycles that consume both perpetrator and victim.

Films like 'Kill Bill' and 'Inglourious Basterds' celebrate stylized revenge narratives as cathartic, operatic journeys of retribution.

His spaghetti westerns, particularly 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,' transformed revenge into a genre-defining meditation on vengeance and justice in lawless worlds.