I can't be as enthusiastic.
Joint Security Area
Your shadow is over the line...
2000 · 1h 48m · Not Rated
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Park Chan-wook
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Joint Security Area
Overview
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The lead investigator receives differing accounts from the two sides.
Director and cast
- Park Chan-wook Director
- Lee Young-ae as Maj. Sophie E. Jean
- Lee Byung-hun as Sgt. Lee Soo-hyuk
- Song Kang-ho as Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil
- Kim Tae-woo as Pvt. Nam Sung-shik
- Shin Ha-kyun as Pvt. Jeong Woo-jin
- Herbert Ulrich as Capt. Persson
- Christoph Hofrichter as Maj. Gen. Bruno Botta
- Lee Han-wi as Major Kang
- Koh In-bae as Ri Sun-hye
- Lee Dae-yeon as Sgt. Hwang
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Park Chan-Wook's Joint Security Area is a fairly straightforward whodunit with a pointedly political theme and an unapologetically humanist message.
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.
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