Salinui chueok (2003)

Director:

Joon-ho Bong

Writers:

Joon-ho Bong (writer)
Kwang-rim Kim (writer)
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Release Date:

2 May 2003 (South Korea)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

In 1986, in the province of Gyunggi, in South Korea, a second young and beautiful woman is found dead...

Plot Keywords:

South Korea | Murder | Serial Killer | Serial Rape | Unsolved Crime

Awards:

11 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

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
Jong-ryol Choi	...	Du-man's father
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
In-seon Jeong
Mi-seon Jeon	...	Kwok Seol-yung
Ha-kyeong Kim
Jae-eung Lee
Young-hwa Seo
Ji-ru Sung

Directed by
Joon-ho Bong

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Joon-ho Bong		writer
Kwang-rim Kim		writer
Sung Bo Shim		writer

Produced by
Seoung-Jae Cha	....	producer
Moo Ryung Kim	....	producer
Kang-bok Lee	....	executive producer
Jong-yun No	....	producer

Original Music by
Tarô Iwashiro

Cinematography by
Hyung-ku Kim

Film Editing by
Sun-min Kim

Production Design by
Seong-hie Ryu
Seong-hie Yu

Sound Department
Byung-Ha Lee	....	sound
Seung-yeop Lee	....	sound editor

Other crew
Bob Buchholz	....	english language director
Eung Jun Lee	....	martial arts choreographer

Production Companies

• CJ Entertainment
• Sidus Pictures

Distributors

• CJ Entertainment (2003) (South Korea) (theatrical)
• Cine Qua Non Films (Japan) (theatrical)
• Optimum Releasing (2004) (UK) (theatrical)
• Palm Pictures (2005) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• CTV International (France)
• Europa Filmes (2007) (Brazil) (DVD)
• I-On New Media (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
• Optimum Releasing (2005) (UK) (DVD)
• Rialto Entertainment (2005) (Australia) (DVD)
• SBP (2007) (Argentina) (DVD)
• SBP (2007) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Visionary Thinking (2003) (Bosnia-Herzegovina) (all media)
• Visionary Thinking (2003) (Serbia and Montenegro) (all media)
• Vivendi Entertainment (2005) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Juniper Post  sound post-production

Also Known As:

Memories of Murder (International: English title) (UK) (USA)

Runtime:

Canada:129 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | Germany:127 min (Filmfest Hamburg) | South Korea:130 min | USA:132 min | Argentina:128 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:16 | Argentina:16 | Singapore:M18 | France:U | Sweden:15 | South Korea:15 | Hong Kong:IIB | Japan:PG-12 | UK:15 | Australia:MA | USA:Unrated

Company:

CJ Entertainment

Trivia:

When Kwang-Ho was investigated in the basement of the police station, the two police officers and a suspect watched a TV program while eating their meals. The title of this program is "Soo Sa Ban Jang" which can be loosely interpreted as "Investigation Squad" in English. It was a famous TV detective drama which was aired for almost twenty years. The opening music was also very popular during that time.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: The letter from the FBI about the semen DNA testing is signed by director Clarence M. Kelly. Kelly was director from 1973-1978. William H. Webster was director in 1986.

Quotes:

Rape suspect: But... is wanking a crime?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Biyeolhan geori (2006)

American thrillers should learn from Korean ones

What a good movie.What a great work of casting. Perhaps a little bit long, but the most part the movie is enjoyable and there's no perfection without mistakes. I think i haven't ever seen before a Korean movie and if there are much of them like this one i shall become Korean movie fan. The tempo, the thrill, the development of characters, everything it has been well worked.The direction is good yet without emphatic resources, there are just two moments with a little much use of slow motion but it doesn't arrive to be an abuse of it.

If you can see it don't loose your time with Hollywood sad-bad thrillers bet for this Korean present.

9/10 cause perfection doesn't exist.