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Lady Vengeance….Vicious
Lady Vengeance Review Park Chan Wook concluded his revenge trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy) with Lady Vengeance. This disturbing film is more stylistically assured than Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and closer in tone to Oldboy than to Mr. Vengeance. It tells the story of Geum-Ja (played by Yeong-ae Lee), imprisoned for kidnapping and killing…
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Korean Remake Fever
It seems Hollywood is well aware that South Korea makes some of the most engaging, freaky, genre-defying, chock full of life films around. The above movies are set to be remade…but wait…it’s a little more complicated. Will Smith and Steven Spielberg are names being tossed about for an Oldboy remake, but word around the web…
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Park Chan Wook’s “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance”
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance In my personal continuing quest to see all films by Park Chan Wook (Oldboy), I recently saw “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance”. It’s particularly interesting to see the contrast between this film and Park’s earlier film “J.S.A. Joint Security Area”. Stylistically as a director he clearly grew a lot from “J.S.A.”. In…