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Joint Security Area (2000)
Director: Park Chan-wook
Cast: Lee Young-ae, Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho, Kim Tae-woo
Runtime108 min
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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.
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Joint Security Area is a critically acclaimed South Korean thriller directed by Park Chan-wook. The film received widespread praise for its tense narrative and nuanced exploration of the North-South Korean conflict. It won several major awards, including the Grand Prize at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. With an IMDb rating of 8.0 and a 93% Rotten Tomatoes score, the film has been well-received by both critics and audiences.
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Joint Security Area is a 2000 South Korean mystery thriller film directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook and based on the novel DMZ by Park Sang-yeon. It is Park Chan-wook's third film as director, and is frequently regarded as his first film with creative control; as he largely disowned his first two films, The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream (1992) and Trio (1997), Park himself prefers the film to be regarded as his directorial debut.
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