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Lady Vengeance

Original title: Chinjeolhan geumjassi
  • 2005
  • R
  • 1h 55m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
83K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
4,384
523
Lee Yeong-ae in Lady Vengeance (2005)
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After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.

  • Director
    • Park Chan-wook
  • Writers
    • Park Chan-wook
    • Myeong-chan Park
    • Chung Seo-kyung
  • Stars
    • Nam-mi Kang
    • Jeong-nam Choi
    • Hye-Sook Go
  • See production, box office & company info
  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    83K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    4,384
    523
    • Director
      • Park Chan-wook
    • Writers
      • Park Chan-wook
      • Myeong-chan Park
      • Chung Seo-kyung
    • Stars
      • Nam-mi Kang
      • Jeong-nam Choi
      • Hye-Sook Go
    • 194User reviews
    • 217Critic reviews
    • 75Metascore
  • See production, box office & company info
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 12 wins & 13 nominations

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    Lee Yeong-ae, Kim Bu-seon, and Chang-Seok Ko in Lady Vengeance (2005)
    Lee Yeong-ae in Lady Vengeance (2005)
    Lee Yeong-ae in Lady Vengeance (2005)
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    Nam-mi Kang
    • Choir Member 1
    Jeong-nam Choi
    • Choir Member 2
    Hye-Sook Go
    • Choir Member 3
    Bok-hwa Baek
    • Choir Member 4
    Cheol Hong
    • Choir Member 5
    Ho-soo Joo
    • Choir Member 6
    • (as Joo Seong-wan)
    In-bo Jang
    • Choir Member 7
    • (as Jang Min)
    Kim Byeong-Ok
    Kim Byeong-Ok
    • Preacher
    Lee Yeong-ae
    Lee Yeong-ae
    • Geum-ja Lee
    Seong-Yoon Choi
    • Won-mo's Friend
    Il-woo Nam
    • Detective Choi
    Cha Soon-bae
    Cha Soon-bae
    • Reporter
    Ik-tae Kim
    • Won-mo's Father
    Yeong-mi Lee
    • Won-mo's Mother
    Jin-gu Kim
    • Sun-sook Go
    Kim Bu-seon
    Kim Bu-seon
    • So-young Woo
    Young-ju Seo
    • Yang-hee Kim
    • (as Yeong-ju Seo)
    Su-hee Go
    • Ma-nyeo
    • Director
      • Park Chan-wook
    • Writers
      • Park Chan-wook
      • Myeong-chan Park
      • Chung Seo-kyung
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The snow during the closing scene is not real. They brought two trucks of salt and scattered it all over the street; the falling snow is CGI.
    • Goofs
      All entries contain spoilers
    • Quotes

      Geum-ja Lee: Listen carefully. Everyone make mistakes. But if you committed a sin, you have to make an atonement for that sin. Atonement, do you know what that means? Big Atonement for big sins. Small Atonement for small sins.

    • Alternate versions
      There are two different versions of the film. One is full color. The other, called "Fade to Black Version", shifts from color to B&W over the course of the movie. Like Sin City, there are color highlighted, even in the B&W scenes. The second version is what the director intended, but he was not able to complete it properly until the Korean DVD (which includes both versions).
    • Connections
      Follows Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
    • Soundtracks
      Mareta no'm faces plorar
      Composed by Jordi Savall

      Vocal by Montserrat Figuera, Arianna Savall

      Baroque Guitar by Xavier Diaz-Latotte

      Baroque Flutes Traversieres by Mare Hantai

      Bass Viola da gamba by Jordi Savall

      Courtesy by Alia Vox

    User reviews194

    Review
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    Featured review
    Interesting but not as emotionally impacting as I would have liked
    Aged 19, Geum-ja Lee confesses as the woman who abducted and murdered the child Won-mo Park. At the time the tabloids cause a clamour against her but this dies down once she is inside and forgotten. She is reached out to inside and finds faith and redemption. However almost 14 years later she is released and decides she no longer has need for this and sets out to catch up with those she knew from inside her prison, all the while working up to her plan to take revenge on the man who robbed her of this chunk of her life.

    Having surprised myself by how much I liked Oldboy, I decided to watch this film as a follow-up. For the majority of it, the story has enough to it to hold the interest easily; the actual core deed is not as interesting on its own as it is shorn of the mystery of Oldboy, however in theory this means it is more about the people and the emotional impact of the act and the vengeance more than the violence. I say in theory because I must be honest and say that I found it a lot less emotionally engaging than I would have liked. In some ways it is strong in this area but mostly it didn't have the heart that I thought it was trying to get to. The narrative is still enough to fill the running time but the second half is, dare I say it, a bit duller than it should have been just because the humanity wasn't there.

    Park must shoulder some responsibility for this but he does make up for it with the style and delivery that drew me into Oldboy. He has scaled it back from that (hence the feeling that this was meant to be more about the heart) but it is still visually engaging and uses various techniques to enhance the delivery. Yeong-ae Lee appears to have been given more insight into the material than I was because her delivery is full of emotion and hurt. She brings it out whenever she can but for some reason the film generally doesn't support her in this. The support cast are mostly good but the film belongs to her and is best when the scenes centre on either her story or her character.

    Overall though, not as good as the praise and ratings here would suggest but still an engaging film on several levels. Stylish and interesting it only stuttered by being surprisingly emotionally muted for large chunks where I felt it needed to be more convincing and impacting. Fans of the other Park films will enjoy it as a conclusion to the trilogy but it is hard not to feel that it could have done more.
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    • bob the moo
    • Dec 11, 2006

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 29, 2005 (South Korea)
    • Country of origin
      • South Korea
    • Languages
      • Korean
      • English
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
    • Filming locations
      • Seoul, South Korea
    • Production companies
      • CJ Entertainment
      • CJ Capital Investment
      • Centurion Investment
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • ₩4,200,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $211,667
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $9,850
      • Apr 30, 2006
    • Gross worldwide
      • $23,834,149
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 55 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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