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Mar 29, 2002 · Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance: Directed by Park Chan-wook. With Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, Bae Doona, Lim Ji-eun. A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' friend's daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant.
The film stars Shin Ha-kyun as Ryu, a young, deaf-mute factory worker trying to earn enough money for his sister's kidney transplant by holding the daughter of a wealthy man for ransom, and the path of vengeance that follows when the plan goes awry.
Ryu and his girlfriend (Bae Doona) then kidnap the daughter of wealthy tycoon Park (Song Kang-ho) to raise the money, but an unexpected disaster...
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Deceived, penniless, and utterly helpless, the desperate brother is talked into kidnapping his former employer's young daughter by his extremist girlfriend, Yeong-mi, only to find themselves trapped in a downward spiral of violence and blood, as things fail to go as planned.
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Aug 19, 2005 · A revenge tragedy as brutal and Byzantine as "Titus Andronicus," Park Chanwook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance accomplishes a miraculous feat by being harrowing and humane in equal measure.
Mar 28, 2002 · A child kidnapping goes horribly wrong, with escalating consequences on both sides, in “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance,” a gripping psychodrama, marbled with blackly ironic humor, that establishes ...
Urgently in need of the money to pay for his gravely ill sister’s kidney transplant, Ryu, a punky deaf-mute factory worker, resorts to kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy industrialist—an act of...
The Vengeance Trilogy ( Korean: 복수 삼부작) is a South Korean thematically-linked film trilogy directed by Park Chan-wook, comprising Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005). Each film deals with the themes of revenge, [7] ethics, [8] violence and salvation.
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance. A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant. The first part of The Vengeance Trilogy.
