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Joint Security Area
Eight shots! The truth is there.
Eight shots! The truth is there.
Drama, Mystery, Thriller - 2000
Joint Security Area
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Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.
Director:
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Park Chan-wook
Cast:
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Song Kang-ho
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Lee Young-ae
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Lee Byung-hun
,
Kim Tae-woo
,
Shin Ha-kyun
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Christoph Hofrichter
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Herbert Ulrich

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Details

Runtime:
108 min
Release date:
9 Sep 2000
Country:
KR
Languages:
German, English, French, Korean
Budget:
$12,500,000
Revenue:
$20,300,000
Awards:
22 wins & 16 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
I can't be as enthusiastic.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
15 Jun 2005
fresh:
Park Chan-Wook's Joint Security Area is a fairly straightforward whodunit with a pointedly political theme and an unapologetically humanist message.
– A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
15 Jun 2005
rotten:
Park's film reveals its double agency by swinging between emotion-charged flashbacks of weepie male bonding and the investigative longueurs of the icy, half-Korean, half-Swedish female officer in charge of mopping up the brotherly bloodbath.
– Chuck Stephens,
Village Voice,
14 Jun 2005
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