Movie
Memories of Murder
Overview
A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.
Details
- Release date
- 2003-04-25
- Runtime
- 131 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- CJ Entertainment, Muhan Investment, Sidus
- Country
- South Korea
- Original language
- KO
Cast
- Song Kang-ho as Detective Park Doo-man
- Kim Sang-kyung as Detective Seo Tae-yoon
- Kim Roi-ha as Detective Cho Yong-koo
- Song Jae-ho as Sergeant Shin Dong-chul
- Byun Hee-bong as Sergeant Koo Hee-bong
- Go Seo-hee as Officer Kwon Kwi-ok
- Ryu Tae-ho as Jo Byung-soon
- Park No-shik as Baek Kwang-ho
- Park Hae-il as Park Hyeon-gyu
- Jeon Mi-seon as Kwok Seol-yung
- Seo Young-hwa as Woman from Hill
- Woo Go-na as Kim So-hyun
Crew
- Bong Joon Ho - Director
- Bong Joon Ho - Writer
- Shim Sung-bo - Writer
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