The final installment in Korean writer-director Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance Trilogy" is marginally less sadistic than SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (2002) and OLDBOY (2003) but delivers an equally intense emotional wallop. It begins with the release of Lee Guem-ja (Lee Young-ae) after 14 years of imprisonment for kidnapping and murdering a small boy. Guem-ja's arrest caused a media sensation — she was a soft-spoken schoolgirl whose angelic demeanor stood in stark contrast to her crime, and she subsequently gained a jailhouse reputation for kindness and good works. But when she's met at the prison gates by a preacher bearing a traditional plate of white tofu, symbol...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
112 mins