Memories Of Murder (Criterion Collection)

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	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
	Tae-ho Ryu	Jo Byeong-soon
	No-shik Park	Baek Gwang-ho
	Hae-il Park	Park Hyeon-gyu
	Mi-seon Jeon	Kwok Seol-yung
	Young-hwa Seo	Eon Deok-nyeo
	Woo Go-na	Kim So-hyeon
	Ok-joo Lee	Oh Nam-joo
	Jong-ryol Choi	Gwang-ho's father
	Seung-Mok Yoo	Journalist
	Hun-Kyung Lee	Park Yeong-ja
	Hyeon-jong Sin	Autopsy doctor
	Jae-eung Lee	Boy in Opening Scene
	In-sun Jung	Girl in Ending Scene
	Byung-gil Kwun	Doctor
	Hyunyoung Park	School Nurse
	Ga-hyun Yun	Shaman
	Dae-hyeon Lee	Forensic Investigator
	Hyuk Poong Kwon	Investigator
	Deok-jae Jo	Investigator

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Director	Joon-ho Bong
Writer	Joon-ho Bong, Kwang-rim Kim, Sung-bo Shim
Producer	Jae-Won Choi, Moo-Ryoung Kim, Kang-bok Lee, Jong-yun No, Seoung-Jae Cha
Musician	Tarô Iwashiro
Photography	Hyung-ku Kim

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In his breakthrough second feature, Bong Joon Ho explodes the conventions of the policier with thrillingly subversive, genre-defying results. Based on the true story of a string of serial killings that rocked a rural community in the 1980s, Memories of Murder stars New Korean Cinema icon Song Kang Ho as the local officer who reluctantly joins forces with a seasoned Seoul detective (Kim Sang Kyung) to investigate the crimes-leading each man on a wrenching, yearslong odyssey of failure and frustration that will drive him to the existential edge. Combining a gripping procedural with a vivid social portrait of the everyday absurdity of life under military rule, Bong fashions a haunting journey into ever-deepening darkness that begins as a black-comic satire and ends as a soul-shattering encounter with the abyss.


DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, supervised by cinematographer Kim Hyung Ku and approved by director Bong Joon Ho, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Two 2003 commentaries featuring Bong and members of the cast and crew, plus a new commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns
New interview with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
New interview with Bong about the real-life serial killer who inspired the film
Documentary from 2004 on the making of the film
Deleted scenes, with optional audio commentary by Bong
New interview with film scholar Jeff Smith on the use of sound in Bong’s work
Incoherence, a 1994 student film by Bong, with a new introduction by the director
Teaser, trailer, and TV spot
PLUS: An essay by critic and novelist Ed Park

New cover by Greg Ruth

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