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V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Joint Security Area
Eight shots! The truth is there.
2000 · 1h 48m · Not Rated
Action, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Park Chan-wook
Overview
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.
Director and cast
- Park Chan-wook Director
- Song Kang-ho as Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil
- Lee Byung-hun as Sgt. Lee Soo-hyuk
- Lee Young-ae as Maj. Sophie E. Jean
- Kim Tae-woo as Nam Sung-shik
- Shin Ha-kyun as Jeong Woo-jin
- Christoph Hofrichter as Maj. Gen. Bruno Botta
- Herbert Ulrich as Schwedischer Soldat
- Ki Joo-bong as General Pyo (uncredited)
- Kim Myoeng-su Cast
- Lee Han-wi Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Park Chan-Wook's Joint Security Area is a fairly straightforward whodunit with a pointedly political theme and an unapologetically humanist message.
A.O. Scott, New York Times
Rotten
Park's film reveals its double agency by swinging between emotion-charged flashbacks of weepie male bonding and the investigative longueurs of the icy, half-Korean, half-Swedish female officer in charge of mopping up the brotherly bloodbath.
Chuck Stephens, Village Voice
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