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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Original title: Boksuneun naui geot · Turkish title: Haklı İntikam

“Revenge was never this sweet.”

2002 · 2 h 9 min
Directed by Park Chan-wook
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Cast

Song Kang-ho Shin Ha-kyun

Credits

Written by: Jong-yong Lee

Plot

A deaf man kidnaps a girl to pay for a transplant.

Sinekatalog’s take

Park Chan-wook's first revenge-trilogy film is a bleak, cold story where every act of desperation makes things worse. Stylish and brutal, it is morally grim and visually sharp.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.5 / 10 (83,044 votes)
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