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The Good, The Bad, The Weird
2008
The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. Read more
| Starring | Woo-sung Jung, Byung-hun Lee, Song Kang-ho |
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| Director | Ji-woon Kim |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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The Good, The Bad, The Weird
The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits.
| Starring | Woo-sung Jung, Byung-hun Lee, Song Kang-ho |
|---|---|
| Director | Ji-woon Kim |
| Studio | ICON HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | Blu-ray: 2 hrs 4 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Korean Blu-ray: Korean |
| Released | DVD: 15 Jun 2009 Blu-ray: 15 Jun 2009 Production year: 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
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Its a sign of the bankability and confidence of Far Eastern cinema that directors such as Kim Jee-Woon and Takashi... read more on Time Out
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42 out of 43 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
The very Good,The very Weird
Basically,anyone who adored the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns is going to have a ball watching this.The director has taken elements from the similarly epic Leone movies 'the Good,the Bad,and the Ugly',and 'Duck you Sucker' and mixed in some Korean mayhem via 'Mad Max 2'.
This film is sometimes breathtaking-mostly in the action sequences that are some of the best I've seen in ages.The narrative veers all over the shop,but the visual flair and the superb acting of the three leads make sure that you'll stay till the end.This is homage,not pastiche and it had me wondering why someone hasn't attempted it before.There are some wonderful
set pieces involving moving trains,deserts,and lawless towns.The Korean twist to proceedings gives the film an almost mythical quality that Hollywood simply couldn't deliver
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
The good,The bad,The weird
This film should have 5 stars
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The Good, the Bad, the Weird: Ji-woon Kim interview
- 07 Feb 2009
Korean director Ji-woon Kim is best known in the west for the small but perfectly formed horror, A Tale of Two Sisters. That's about to change, however, with the release of his latest film, noodle western The Good, the Bad, the Weird, which just happens to have the largest budget of any live action film in Korean history. As the title would suggest, The Good, the Bad, the Weird is a remake of Sergio Leone's spaghetti western masterpiece The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but given an Asian... Read more
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