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Director:
Chan-wook Park
Writers:
Seong-san Jeong (writer)
Hyeon-seok Kim (writer)
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Release Date:
9 September 2000 (South Korea) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller | War more
Plot:
In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier... more | add synopsis
Awards:
9 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Well done! more (64 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Yeong-ae Lee ... Maj. Sophie E. Jean

Byung-hun Lee ... Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeok
Kang-ho Song ... Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil
Tae-woo Kim ... Nam Sung-shik
Ha-kyun Shin ... Jeong Woo-jin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ju-bong Gi

Christoph Hofrichter ... Maj. Gen. Bruno Botta
Myoeng-su Kim
Tae-hyeon Kim
Herbert Ulrich ... Swedish soldier
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
J.S.A.: Joint Security Area (USA)
JSA: Joint Security Area (UK)
Joint Security Area (International: English title)
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Runtime:
110 min
Country:
South Korea
Language:
English | Korean
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR

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Trivia:
Since filming at the real JSA is impossible, an exact replica was built at the studio, which still stands. more
Quotes:
Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil: Your shadow is over the line. Watch it! more
Movie Connections:
References Vargtimmen (1968) more

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29 out of 34 people found the following comment useful.
Well done!, 30 June 2004
Author: nr3685 from Stockholm, Sweden

Expecting an Asian remake of A few good men, I was pleasantly surprised to find a well acted movie with a different storyline. It expressed the feeling of absurdity that exist in such places as a DMZ, with nice attention to details. Anyone who has been in places or situations like these will recognize the cigarette rituals and so on.

I think the movie excellently describes the stupidity and rigidity of war and the military life - just like in the movie, all it ultimately leads to is friends killing each other for no good reason.

The people who are complaining about the bad English in the movie obviously never heard Swiss and Swedish people speak English - none of the "foreigners" are supposed to be native English speakers, so it makes perfect sense for them to speak as they do!

All in all, a visually beautiful movie with a nice but slightly over-obvious script, nice acting from the four main Korean characters, some very funny scenes that gives comic relief to fend off the impending doom of the inevitable end, and actually quite realistic, in my opinion.

Now I am going to check out Sympathy for Mr Vengeance and Old Boy!

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