Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
- Release Date
- March 29, 2002
- Director
- Chan-wook Park
- Cast
- Kang-ho Song , Ha-kyun Shin , Doona Bae , Ji-Eun Lim , Bo-bae Han , Se-dong Kim
- Runtime
- 121
- Main Genre
- Crime
- Writers
- Jae-sun Lee , Jong-yong Lee , Mu-yeong Lee , Chan-wook Park
- Tagline
- Revenge Was Never This Sweet
Summary
As the film opens, a radio announcer reads a foreboding message sent in by the deaf mute Ryu, an intense young man who has a dead end job in a smelting factory. Ryu idolizes his sister who is in urgent need of a kidney transplant. When he is fired from his job and is tricked out of his savings by organ traffickers, his trashy loud-mouthed girlfriend Yeong-mi suggests kidnapping his boss's daughter Yu-sun for ransom to pay for his sister's transplant. What starts as a desperate attempt to help his sister leads to a high stakes game of revenge between Ryu and his former boss Park Dong-jin (played by Song Kang-ho of Mr. Park's JSA and The Foul King) that soon escalates into a modern day Greek tragedy.
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