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As anyone who’s watched “The Way of the Gun” knows, the furthest distance between two points is always between a kidnapper and his money. In “Sympathy for Mr Vengeance”, though, getting the money is easy. It’s staying alive long enough to spend it that’s the problem.

Taking its cue from the Pang brothers’ similarly excellent “Bangkok Dangerous”, “Sympathy for Mr Vengeance” stars Shin Ha-kyun as Ryu, a deaf and dumb steelworker who kidnaps his boss’ daughter in order to pay for a kidney operation for his beloved sister. Nothing goes according to plan, and what ought to have been easy money soon turns into blood money.

That’s just the start of this supremely gritty hardboiled thriller set in Asia’s underground world of illegal organ transplants. After the kidnapping goes awry, Ryu and his girlfriend, Youngmi (the fantastic Bae Doo-na from “Take Care of My Cat” and the Korean remake of “Ringu”), struggle to avoid Ryu’s old boss, who’s determined to take an eye for an eye.

Director Park Chan-Wook says he wanted to create a hard-boiled Asian thriller that eschewed the overblown visual excess of recent Korean efforts (like “Shiri”) in favour of a darker, more realistic delivery.

As a result, everything here is saturated in the believable (and the bloody), and although cinematographer Kim Byung-II has an eye for composing quite unusual shots, Park refuses to substitute bravura technical ability for emotional engagement.

Suitably, for a movie about a deaf-and-dumb hero, the audio track veers from moments of uncanny silence to a screeching jazz saxophone to even more disturbing sound effects of torsos being cracked open, heads beaten with baseball bats, and, in the most excruciating moment, a torture scene involving electrodes and earlobes.

Brutally nihilistic, this is one of the best Korean films to have hit these shores in a very long time.

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A man and his friend occasionally steal babies from the church’s baby box and sell them on the adoption black market. However, when a young mother comes back after having abandoned her baby, she discovers them and decides to go with them on a road-trip to interview the baby’s potential parents

7.51GB | 2h 09m | 1920×1080 | mkv

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Middle-aged Hideo lives alone with an inflatable doll he calls Nozomi. The doll is his closest companion. He dresses it up, talks to it over dinner, and has sexual intercourse with it. However, unbeknown to Hideo, Nozomi was created with a heart. After Hideo leaves for work each day, Nozomi dresses in her maid’s outfit and explores the world outside their apartment with a sense of child-like wonder. She encounters various city residents who metaphorically are as “empty inside” as she is. When Nozomi meets Junichi, who works at a local video store, she falls in love with him and gets a part-time job at the store. She learns about the world through the movies she watches with Junichi, but her happiness with him is interrupted by a dramatic turn of events.

Director Koreeda has stated that the film is about the loneliness of urban life and the question of what it means to be human.

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Young-nam was a promising graduate of the police academy before she was transferred to the small seaside village, which was caused by her misconduct. On her first day to the village, she encounters with Dohee who is the girl living in the town, seeming to have somewhat gloomy looking face. As Young-nam tries to accommodate with her new surroundings, an accident of Dohee’s grandma getting killed by falling in the seashore cliff happens. As to protect the girl from her stepfather’s abuse, Young-nam let Dohee stay at her place but things turn out to be more mysterious as she gets to know her.

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