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Lady Vengeance

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Lee Geum-ja (Lee Young-ae) has spent the last 13 years in prison for a murder she didn't commit. She's fantasized about getting revenge on the various people who wronged her, including the police officer (Nam Il-u) who forced her to confess and a shady teacher (Choi Min-sik) with whom she has a checkered past. After her release, she teams up with a group of eccentric friends she made while behind bars and sets out to clear her name and find the daughter she was forced to leave behind.
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Stylistically flashy and gruesomely violent, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance fits in nicely with the other two films of Park's revenge trilogy.

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Alyx Vesey Bitch Media [Sympathy for Lady Vengeance] far surpasses Oldboy in its ability to dazzle and unnerve. Jan 5, 2021 Full Review Brian Tallerico UGO What most will take from Lady Vengeance is a director in love with film and the ability to express that passion through the language of his medium. Mar 24, 2007 Full Review Bob Longino Atlanta Journal-Constitution ... as brutal as it is beautiful. Rated: B+ Aug 6, 2006 Full Review Howard Feinstein The Advocate Lady Vengeance is an electrifying South Korean thriller with a strong female protagonist, a bold color palette, and a healthy dose of dark humor. May 24, 2022 Full Review Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse Park Chan-wook focused on a female character and created a unique amalgam of black humor, blasphemous irony, extreme violence, which at times, is turned on children, and liberating humanism, chiefly depicted in the final sequence of collective revenge Apr 6, 2019 Full Review Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal As a man is made to mediate the terms of his own murder, Park Chan-wook offers a perfect resolution to his "Vengeance" trilogy: an acutely agonizing elegy for whatever shred of humanity is left after the impulse for vengeance has worked itself out. Rated: 3.5/4 Sep 17, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

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Kenneth L Watching this after Oldboy, I thought I was prepared, but this movie still managed to shock me. Good stuff if you can handle it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/13/24 Full Review Rosana B Se você analisar friamente o roteiro, não faz muito sentido e tem muitos furos, entretanto a vingança é sensacional, ganhando contornos cômicos, sádicos e interessantíssimos… Conduzido com inteligência e criatividade magistral, que nos leva para dentro dos devaneios de Lee Geum-Ja e sua bipolaridade… A parte das crianças foi cruel, a reunião de pais adoravelmente vingativa… Surpreendente, inovador, cativante, sangrento e pesado, contudo amortizado pelo tom satírico… Maravilhoso Coreano… Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/06/24 Full Review Jonah K vengeance is, and always will be, far more cinematic than forgiveness. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/31/24 Full Review Prabudhjeet A The third installment of Vengeance Trilogy. Oldboy sets up the benchmark how unpredictable Mr. Park Chan Wook's vision is. Though cinematography is still heavenly, this movie feels light, specially after watching Sympathy for Mr Vengeance and mighty Oldboy Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/19/24 Full Review Dick C It's a Korean movie with a mysterious endings... Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/24 Full Review Nathan H Gives Oldboy a run for its money as the top revenge movie of all time, certainly in Korean cinema. It delights and surprises, then manages to get around to shocking you, all within a truly interesting concept that feels exceedingly fresh (as does Sympathy for Mr Vengeance even while sharing an underlying plot premise). As with the surrogate audiences in the film represented by the preacher and shop boy, prepare to become obsessed and disillusioned and then obsessed all over again by the enigmatic Lady Vengeance. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/18/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Lee Geum-ja (Lee Young-ae) has spent the last 13 years in prison for a murder she didn't commit. She's fantasized about getting revenge on the various people who wronged her, including the police officer (Nam Il-u) who forced her to confess and a shady teacher (Choi Min-sik) with whom she has a checkered past. After her release, she teams up with a group of eccentric friends she made while behind bars and sets out to clear her name and find the daughter she was forced to leave behind.
Director
Park Chan-wook
Producer
Lee Tae-heon, Jo Yeonguk
Screenwriter
Park Chan-wook, Jeong Seo-kyeong
Production Co
Moho Film
Rating
R (Some Sexuality|Some Involving Children|Strong Violent Content)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Korean
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
May 5, 2006
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 6, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA)
$211.7K
Runtime
1h 54m