2005 - LADY VENGEANCE, excellent crime thriller from Korea

This is an excellent crime thriller from the director Park Chan-Wook who also took a credit on the screenplay.  Park Chan-Wood is one of Korea's most interesting directors with films like Oldboy, Stoker, Snowpiercer, and Joint Security Area to name a few. Park Chan-Wook makes very original films which are on the intense side.

Lady Vengeance is frankly a very extreme film.  The story involves a woman who has gone to prison for the murder of a five year old boy.  While serving her time in prison she develops an elaborate scheme to reek vengeance in what turns out to be a more complicated situation than was originally thought.

 

The film is flamboyantly directed and the acting is of a very high caliber with a standout performance from Lee Young-ae as the titular character.  I would have to say that the plot twists are at times surprising and quite shocking.  As I indicated before this is a very intense film.  I've been avoiding discussing the plot of this film because I am very reluctant to spoil any of the story.

The film was written by Jeong Seo-kyeong and Park Chan-wook.  The running time is 115 minutes.