A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
Director:
Kim Ki-dukWriter:
Kim Ki-duk
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Min-soo Jo | ... | Mi-Son | |
| Lee Jung-Jin | ... | Gang-Do (as Jeong-jin Lee) | |
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Ki-Hong Woo | ... | Hoon-chul |
| Eunjin Kang | ... | Myeong-ja (Hoon-Chul's wife) | |
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Jae-ryong Cho | ... | Tae-seung |
| Myeong-ja Lee | ... | Mother of Suicidal Man | |
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Jun-seok Heo | ... | Suicidal Man |
| Kwon Yul | ... | Machinist with the Guitar (as Se-in Kwon) | |
| Mun-su Song | ... | Borrower Who Climbs the Steps | |
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Beom-jun Kim | ... | Myeongdong Man |
| Son Jong-hak | ... | Boss | |
| Yong-wook Jin | ... | Shop Owner in Wheelchair (as Jin Yong-Ok) | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Joon-seok Heo | ... | Suicidal Man |
| Jae-rok Kim | ... | Monk | |
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Won-jang Lee | ... | Sang-gu |
A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
Pieta is the story of revenge in a most brutal way possible by giving one's own life, a story of mother's love for his son. Story tells us the extreme measures taken by a mother to take the revenge from a non-human brutal loan shark.
Jung-Jin Lee is living a lonely life whose sole purpose is to recover the loan from other people by making them cripple and claiming their insurance money. In doing so he has become so cold inside that he feels nothing and know no pain. Brutality is the everyday life matter.
Enters a woman stirring everything by claiming that she is his mother. she make him feel love, make him angry and make him feel pain just to take the revenge of her son. And when Jung-Jin starts to feel human again, she inflicted the deep scar into his soul by giving her own life.
Movie is full of disturbing content and makes for a haunting viewing. I am a fan of south Korean cinema and this movie takes the love affair to another level.
8/10