Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok) (2003)

8.1	Listal rating
8.1	IMDB rating

Directed by

Joon-ho Bong

Starring (View all)

Kang-ho Song

Detective Park Doo-Man

Sang-kyung Kim

Detective Seo Tae-Yoon

Roe-ha Kim

Detective Cho Yong-koo

Jae-ho Song

Sergeant Shin Dong-chul

Hie-bong Byeon

Sergeant Koo Hee-bong

Seo-hie Ko

Officer Kwon Kwi-ok

No-shik Park

Baek, Kwang-ho

Hae-il Park

Park, Hyeon-gyu

Written by (View all)

Joon-ho Bong

writer

Kwang-rim Kim

writer

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2 years, 2 months ago at Mar 20 15:46

Spike Marshall

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Memories of Murder opens in a ponderous mood as a small town detective named Park Doo-Man (played by Mr. Vengeance himself Kang-ho Song) discovers the body of a murdered girl stuffed into a stone partition of a ditch. Her hands are bound and her mouth gagged; she will soon be joined by many more.

The year is 1986 and South Korea’s police force is ultimately ill equipped to deal with... read more

Ingenious Korean film with a smart ending...

11 months, 2 weeks ago at Jun 14 10:26

MithilVBhoras

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Korean Cinema is one of those areas which I have yet to completely explore. Thanks to the Brutal thrilling Korean classic Oldboy, came out in 2003, I got highly excited about exploring the Korean world continuing my journey with this incredible film: Memories of Murder.

Memories of Murder, based on a true story, is a crime thriller set in the late 1980's. Two rural cops and a speci... read more

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South Korea in 1986 under the military dictatorship: Two rural cops and a special detective from the capital investigate a series of brutal rape murder. Their crude measures become more desperate with each new corpse found

Release date : 2 May 2003

Crime (11), Mystery (10), Thriller (10), Korean (9), Serial Killer (8), Drama (7), Murder (7), Korea (7), South Korea (6), Based On A True Story (6), Rain (5), Torture (4), Mental Retardation (4), 2000s (4), Foreign (3), Rape (3), Red Dress (2), Slapstick (2), Corrupt Cop (2), Based On True Story (2)

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" Review by Spike Marshall The film manages to capture the absurdity of a rather incompetent police force from an era of 'beating out a confession to solve the case'. This doesn't down play the horrible nature of the crimes but adds to the tragedy of the case. "

jaytoast commented on a review of Memories of Murder 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Nice review, I added a link to this review to my film dairy. Could use a star rating ;)

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"23.2.2013 My second rewatch for this in a little too short time span, really, but it's a nice serial killer-chasing stuff anyway, with more investigating, than excitement like approach to things, and with oddly working humorous moments (like when thinking the killer is baldie down there, Kang-ho Song's character goes to the bathhouse to stare down at random people's parts, instead of taking note of the actually sense-making statement from the female police). So when sometimes the things do get "