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Joint Security Area (Korean: 공동경비구역 JSA) is a 2000 South Korean mystery thriller film [2] directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook and based on the novel DMZ by Park Sang-yeon.
Joint Security Area: Park Chan-wook [89] [90] Memento: Christopher Nolan: Two plot lines, simultaneously developing in opposite directions, join in a final scene at the film's conclusion. [53] [78] [91] Happenstance: Laurent Firode [92] Pay It Forward: Mimi Leder
In 2000, Park directed Joint Security Area, which was a great success both commercially and critically, even surpassing Kang Je-gyu's Shiri as the then most-watched film ever made in South Korea. [19] This success made it possible for Park to make his next film more independently. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is the result of this creative freedom.
The joint South Korean-U.S. investigation team trip a North Korean booby-trap, killing one American and wounding six others. March 1975: The second North Korean infiltration tunnel is discovered. June 1976: An incursion south of the DMZ in Gangwon-do leaves three dead from the North and six from the South.
The first installment in Park's trilogy was the 2002 film, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, a bleak and violent tale of revenge gone wrong.It tells the story of a deaf-mute man who kidnaps a young girl to pay for his sister's much-needed kidney transplant.
Matt Damon is also in the movie, albeit in a secondary role. "Dogma" (1999) This unique R-rated film follows Damon and Affleck, two fallen angels who have found a loophole that can get them back ...
If You Were Me is a 2003 South Korean omnibus film, comprising six short films directed by six prominent Korean directors, including Park Chan-wook. [2] Commissioned by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea for ₩50 million (US$39,000) each, the shorts deal with discrimination in Korea and the directors were given free rein with regards to subject and style.
The film, Czura said, is loosely based on actual events that took place in the Operation Jackpot era from about 1975 to 1988, and includes nods to people and places he knew.