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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.
Shiri (Korean: 쉬리; RR: Swiri) is a 1999 South Korean action spy film, written and directed by Kang Je-gyu.It was the first Hollywood-style big-budget blockbuster to be produced in the new Korean film industry (i.e. after Korea's major economic boom in the late 1990s). [1]
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.
A Christian musical procession waits with a symbolic block of tofu outside a prison for the release of Lee Geum-ja, a reformed female prisoner. Convicted of kidnapping and murdering a 5-year-old schoolboy, Won-mo, 13 years earlier, Geum-ja became a national sensation because of her young age, angelic appearance, and eager confession to the crime.
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 ...
The movie stars Jim Caviezel, who in the 19 years since he played the title role of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” has been a go-to actor for the kind of faith-based projects the ...
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.