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Overview
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Writers:
Jae-sun Lee (writer)
Mu-yeong Lee (writer)
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Release Date:
29 March 2002 (South Korea) more
Tagline:
Revenge Was Never This Sweet
Plot:
In Seoul, the deaf and dumb worker Ryu is very attached to his sister, who needs a transplantation of kidney... more | add synopsis
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2 wins more
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(11 articles)
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Art House Violence, Korean Style more (98 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Kang-ho Song | ... | Park Dong-jin | |
| Ha-kyun Shin | ... | Ryu | |
| Du-na Bae | ... | Cha Yeong-mi | |
| Ji-Eun Lim | ... | Ryu's Sister | |
| Bo-bae Han | ... | Yu-sun | |
| Se-dong Kim | ... | Chief of Staff | |
| Dae-yeon Lee | ... | Choe | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Ju-bong Gi | |||
| Gyu-su Jeong | |||
| Jae-yeong Jeong | ... | Husband of Dong-jin's ex-wife's | |
| Kan-hie Lee | ... | Park Dong-jin's ex-wife | |
| Kwang-rok Oh | ... | Anarchist | |
| Seung-wan Ryoo | ... | Delivery Boy | |
| Seung-beom Ryu | ... | Retarded Boy at River | |
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Also Known As:
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (International: English title) (UK) (USA)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong gruesome violence, strong sexuality, language and drug use.
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Runtime:
129 min | Japan:117 min | UK:121 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Singapore:R21 | Finland:K-18 | New Zealand:R18 | France:-16 | Iceland:16 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Basel-Stadt) | Italy:T | Argentina:16 | Argentina:18 (DVD rating) | Brazil:14 | Australia:R | Hong Kong:III | Ireland:18 | Japan:R-18 | Norway:15 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:16
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The script was finished in 20 hours of non-stop work. more
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Continuity: In the ransom photo of Yoosun, she is wearing the necklace Ryu made. However, he hadn't given her the necklace when he took the photo, it was later, when he traded the necklace for her doll. more
Quotes:
Park Dong-jin: I know you're a good guy... but you know why I have to kill you... more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Widaehan yusan (2003) more
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The heir apparent to Sam Peckinpah is tucked away far from Hollywood. Chan-wook Park, I'm sure few people know of him outside of Korea but talent like this can not go unoticed for long. I knew nothing of this film or Mr. Park before seeing it at the Seattle International Film Festival. Human (political?) isolation permeates the film, connectiveness to others whether familial or conjugal comes with a steep price to pay. Vengence to reclaim honor is a staple in Asian cinema, Mr. Park's "Revenge" completely sidesteps the tired honor formula making us question what happens when normal folk take revenge into the realm of pyschotic? This is the type of film that you and your friends will passionately discuss over STRONG drinks afterwords, there is no nuetrality in opinions, like Solondz's "Hapiness" you love it or hate it. As the film ended, a packed house gave a tepid applause, not because of a lack of enthusiasm, a collective numbness left a pall over the audience, a raping of all the senses. Like Cronenberg's "Crash" and Tarkovsky's "Stalker", one becomes defeated by a hypnotic sense of forboding, you are forced to endure it, pummeled into submission. The violence is very graphic, but as much as Mr. Park show's, it's what he doesn't show that makes him so talented, the subtle use of sound to advance the film is outright brilliance. Like Takeshi Kitano's early films, the extreme violence is never gratuitous yet the like offbeat humor, very unsettling. "Sympathy For Mr. Vengence" is not 'dark' it is uncompromisingly bleak, ah but bleakness never looked so good!