Song Kang-ho

Kim Sang-kyung

Kim Roi-ha

Song Jae-ho

Byun Hee-bong

Go Seo-hee

Ryu Tae-ho

Park No-shik

Park Hae-il

Jeon Mi-seon

Seo Young-hwa

Woo Go-na

Choi Jong-ryul

Yoo Seung-mok

Shin Hyeon-jong

Jung In-sun

Lee Jae-eung

Kwon Byung-gil

Park Hyun-young

Yoon Ga-hyun

Kwon Hyeok-pung

Jo Deok-jae

Jo Moon-ee

Baek Bong-ki

Kim Joo-ryoung

Yeom Hye-ran

Park Jin-woo

Lee Dong-yong

Oh Yong

Son Jin-hwan

Park Tae-kyeong

Son Kang-gook

Son Jin-ho

Shin Un-seop

Ha-kyeong Kim

Lee Da-il

Shim Sung-bo

Lee Kang-san

Lee In-hui

Seong Jeong-seon

Yoo In-soo

Kang Jong-ik

Jung Do-ahn

Lee Kang-bok

Kim Hyung-koo

Bong Joon Ho

Tcha Sung-jai

Kim Moo-ryoung

Taro Iwashiro

Noh Jong-yun

Kim Sun-min

Woo Seung-mie

Shin Jae-ho

You Cheong

Jung Chang-hyun

Lee Ik-su

Ryu Seong-hie

Kim Byeong-gi

Kim Gwang-rim

Yang Hong-sam

Lee Yong-kii

Lee Hee-eun

Masa Sakuma

Akiko Takakuwa

Kyung-bo Yeo

Lee Yong-jun

Kim Chul-yong

Kim Yoo-seon

Hwang Hyun-gyu

Lee Seung-yeop

Jay Choi

Choi Tae-young

Lee In-gyu

Chin Hee-moon

Crime

Drama

Thriller

살인의 추억

CJ Entertainment

Muhan Investment

Sidus

South Korea

한국어/조선말

English

Memories of Murder

assassin

police brutality

rape

corruption

police

detective

investigation

victim

based on true story

based on play or musical

murder

serial killer

torture

brutality

killer

neo-noir

1980s

south korea

Michael

Doch eines ist sicher, alle die sich auf das koreanische Kino einlassen können werden bei „Memories of a Murder“ mit einem Film belohnt, der nachwirkt, der nach dem Abspann nicht nur ein weiterer gesehener Film ist. Man liest es vielleicht aus dieser Rezension raus, dass „Memories of a Murder“ überzeugen konnte und genau deswegen sollte auch klar sein, was Ihr nun tun solltet. Genau! Schaut Euch „Memories of a Murder“ an. Überzeugt Euch selbst davon, wie vielschichtig und spannend dieser Film ist. Fiebert selbst mit den Ermittlern mit und rätselt wer die Taten begangen hat. „Memories of a Murder“ ist sicher kein einfacher Film und auch kein „Feel Good“-Film, aber ein mehr als sehenswerter Film. [Sneakfilm.de]

CinemaSerf

This is cracking serial killer drama from Bong Joon Ho - with some superb performances - that tracks a police investigation trying almost every technique known to man to trace a rapist/murderer who is terrorising young women (especially if it is raining and if they are wearing red). Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim and Roe-ha Kim don't exactly see eye to eye as they set about their task, adopting some scientific and not-so scientific approaches to their detection. The stylish and witty writing allows the characters to develop at a slow, but steady and interesting pace - using humour, pathos and violence - and at times it is the methods and attitudes of the police that appear under more scrutiny than the perpetrator of the crimes! Sadly, though, it does sag towards the end. The sharp pace of the writing and the intensity of the performances having reached a pretty high plateau, comes off the boil a bit and I found the ending annoyingly self-defeating: the identity of the criminal being less important to me than the collapsing integrity of those charged with his discovery. We never quite get back to that high standard of storytelling achieved in the first 90 minutes and as the quirkiness of the plot becomes more subsumed into the increasing frustrations of the investigators, the film becomes more and more a generic crime thriller losing much of its uniqueness. Certainly well worth watching, but perhaps it could have been shaved a bit to maintain the jeopardy.

Memories of Murder( 2003)

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Written by Michael on Wed Dec 28 2022

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