| Lady Vengeance - Chinjeolhan geumjassi (2005)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Yeong-ae Lee |
Geum-ja Lee
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| Min-sik Choi |
Mr. Baek
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| Su-hee Go |
Ma-nyeo
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| Kang-ho Song |
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| Seung-Shin Lee |
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| Tony Barry |
StepFather, Australian
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| Hye-jeong Kang |
Tv announcer
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| Yea-young Kwon |
Jenny
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| Dae-yeon Lee |
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| Su-gyeong Lim |
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| Anne Cordiner |
StepMother, Australian
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| Bu-seon Kim |
So-young Woo
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| Byeong-ok Kim |
Preacher
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| Plot |
| The third stop in Chan-wook Park's breathless revenge trilogy, Lady Vengeance comes down slightly--just slightly--from the astonishing highs of middle segment Oldboy. Elegant and ultraviolent in equal measures, Lady Vengeance requires rapt attention from the opening moments, as Park unloads his set-up in a jumble of characters and flashbacks. At the center is a doll-faced ex-con named Geum-ja (Yeong-ae Lee), who just spent 13 years in the slammer for killing a little boy. There's much more to her case than the public knows, and Geum-ja has been carefully, quietly preparing for revenge against the man who put her in this situation. We watch those gears turning throughout the movie, but as Lady Vengeance nears its completion it broadens into an even bigger event than Geum-ja expected. Funny and horrifying, Lady Vengeance is as measured as Geum-ja's own preparations, and has a gorgeous sort of logic about it. As impressive as those machinations are to watch, the movie doesn't make as forceful an argument as Oldboy on just how revenge might be as punishing to the revenge-taker as for his target. Lee is a cool heroine, and Min-sik Choi, who did such heroically exhausting service in Oldboy, is here employed as the monster. (The film's title in the U.S., Lady Vengeance, is different from international title Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, a closer tie to the first part of the trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.) --Robert Horton |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Drama; Foreign; Mystery; Thriller |
| Director |
Chan-wook Park; Chan Wook Park |
| Producer |
Young-wuk Cho; Chun-yeong Lee; Tae-Hun Lee |
| Writer |
Seo-Gyeong Jeong; Chan-wook Park; Chan Wook Park |
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| Studio |
Tartan Video |
| Country |
South Korea |
| Language |
Korean |
| Audience Rating |
R |
| Running Time |
112 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
7/29/2005 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
796 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
9/28/2006 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Single Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
842498030240 |
| Release Date |
9/26/2006 |
| Subtitles |
English |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 KOREAN: Dolby Digital 5.1
KOREAN: DTS 5.1 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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· Interview with Director Park Chan-Wook
· The Making of Lady Vengeance
· Audio Commentary by Director Park Chan-Wook
· Audio Commentary by Director, Cinematographer and Art Director
· Audio Commentary by Richard Peña -- Program Director, Film Society of Lincoln · Center, and Associate Professor of Film, Columbia University
· International and U.S. Theatrical Trailers
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