Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2002 · Movie · R · 129 min · ★ 7.5 · 56% critics
A deaf man and his girlfriend desperately try to raise money for a kidney transplant for his sister. Their plan spirals quickly into a brutal chain of escalating retaliation, turning desperation into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Also known as Vengeance Trilogy 1 - Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
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Details
- Original title
- 복수는 나의 것
- Years
- 2002
- Release date
- 2002-03-29
- Language
- Korean
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 56/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 (1,696 votes)
- Box office
- $2,046,061
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want an intensely bleak revenge thriller with strong sympathy for people pushed to extremes; Not for you if you’re squeamish about extreme violence or prefer clearer storytelling to Sympathy for Lady Vengeance or I Saw the Devil.
Pros: grim vengeance thriller; human sympathy; intense and bleak | Cons: confusing pacing at times; extreme violence; mixed character depth
Themes
- factory
- kidnapping
- kidney transplant
- revenge
- disability
- radical politics
- south korea
- organ harvesting
Cast & crew
Song Kang-ho
as Dong-jin
Shin Ha-kyun
as Ryu
Bae Doona
as Yeong-mi
Im Ji-eun
as Sister
Han Bo-bae
as Yu-Sun
Lee Dae-yeon
as Detective Choi
Ki Joo-bong
as Engineer Peng
Kim Se-dong
as CEO
- LY
Lee Yoon-Mi
as Boss
Ryoo Seung-bum
as Person with Cerebral Palsy
Directed by Park Chan-wook