Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Kang-ho Song | ... | Detective Park Doo-man | |
Kim Sang-kyung | ... | Detective Seo Tae-yoon | |
Roe-ha Kim | ... | Detective Cho Yong-koo | |
Jae-ho Song | ... | Sergeant Shin Dong-chul | |
Byun Hee-Bong | ... | Sergeant Koo Hee-bong (as Hie-bong Byeon) | |
Seo-hie Ko | ... | Officer Kwon Kwi-ok | |
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Tae-ho Ryu | ... | Jo Byeong-soon |
No-shik Park | ... | Baek Gwang-ho | |
Park Hae-il | ... | Park Hyeon-gyu | |
Mi-seon Jeon | ... | Kwok Seol-yung | |
Young-hwa Seo | ... | Eon Deok-nyeo | |
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Woo Go-na | ... | Kim So-hyeon |
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Ok-joo Lee | ... | Oh Nam-joo |
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Jong-ryol Choi | ... | Gwang-ho's father |
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Seung-mok Yoo | ... | Journalist |
In 1986, in the province of Gyunggi, in South Korea, a second young and beautiful woman is found dead, raped and tied and gagged with her underwear. Detective Park Doo-Man and Detective Cho Yong-koo, two brutal and stupid local detectives without any technique, investigate the murder using brutality and torturing the suspects, without any practical result. The Detective Seo Tae-Yoon from Seoul comes to the country to help the investigations and is convinced that a serial-killer is killing the women. When a third woman is found dead in the same "modus-operandi", the detectives find leads of the assassin. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
I have long since heard of the excellence of this korean movie on koreanfilm.org, but it was only after reading the review in detail and realizing that the score was written by Taro Ishiwaro ( a well known Japanese musician who also wrote scores for Shohei Imamura and Japanese TV serials, including The Inanimate World ), and that the DOP was Kim Hyung-gu (who also shot Musa, One Fine Spring Day and Chen Kaige's Together) that it stumped on me I was indeed missing a masterpiece.
And a masterpiece it is, one deeply haunting and disturbing asian crime thriller. The mood invoked during the last few minutes of the film is something you would probably never forget.
Watch this film not only for its cinematic brilliance, but also because of the mezmerising score written by Taro Ishiwaro, track no 29 on the OST the favourite on my list.