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The Good, The Bad, The Weird Details

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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
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 DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Drama, World Cinema
Language Korean
Released DVD: 15 Jun 2009
Blu-ray: 15 Jun 2009
Production year: 2008
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews of The Good, The Bad, The Weird

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  • 4 stars out of

    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

    • Tom Huddleston, 
    • Time Out
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  • 42 out of 43 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars [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

    and it is this that makes this epic a must see.

      • citizenk from London
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    The Good,The Bad ,The Weird

    Tribute to the spaghetti western set in 1930's Manchuria it's a surprisingly good film! Lots of action and comedy. Bandits, Japanese Army, hired killers a bounty hunter and a train robber who loves his granny, oh, and beware of kids with knives! The plot flows well keeping your interest to the end...where you have the option of two! Loved it!

      • ceorlman from Maidstone
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    The Good, The Bad, The Weird

    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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