Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok) (2003)

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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

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Joon-ho Bong
writer

Kwang-rim Kim
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9 years, 2 months ago at Mar 20 20:46

Spike Marshall

2 votes

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

A very good movie

3 years, 3 months ago at Mar 4 15:17

johanlefourbe

1 vote

Since I kept hearing some really good things about this movie, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, I wasn't disappointed, that's for sure. Indeed, right from the start, I recognized the unique style of Joon-ho Bong which was in this case to mix a very dark and realistic serial-killer thriller with some unexpected humor. He already did something similar with 'Gwoemul' in which he mixed a typic... read more

Ingenious Korean film with a smart ending...

7 years, 11 months ago at Jun 14 15:26

MithilVBhoras

1 vote

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

Tags: Crime (14), Korean (13), Mystery (12), Thriller (11), Serial Killer (10), Drama (8), Murder (8), Korea (7), 2003 (6), Based On A True Story (6), South Korea (6), Rain (5), Mental Retardation (5), Torture (4), Rape (4), 2000s (4), Foreign (3), (3), Asian (2), Foreign Language (2)

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