State of Siege

5 Dark Souls

A Pool Without Water

水のないプール

Yuya Uchida

Yumiko Fujita

Reiko Nakamura

Akemi Shima

Megumi Saki

Kenji Sawada

Rikiya Yasuoka

Fujio Tokita

Yoshio Harada

Tamori

Taiji Tonoyama

Fujio Akatsuka

Shirō Shimomoto

Seitarō Kuroda

Temujin Hijikata

Shigeru Daikohara

Emi Ueda

Daisuke Iijima

Kōji Wakamatsu

Eiichi Uchida

Terumi Hosoishi

Teruo Nakajima

Kazuki Hakama

Hajime Isogai

Takashi Sugisaki

Katsuo Ono

Higashiyama Michiru

Yusuke Narita

Yoshiho Fukuoka

Kazuo Shimizu

Hiroyuki Asaoka

rape

eroticism

erotic fantasy

chloroform

日本語

Angel Enforcers

Bankaku Rokku

Bestia nocturna

Bone Daddy

Crocodile Evil

Crosstalk

Crypt of Dark Secrets

Dark Angels

Strangler vs. Strangler

Gun Crazy

Deaths in Tokimeki

Island of Horrors

Shiroi yubi no tawamure

Drillbit Taylor

Drillbit

Hell Behind the Bars

Hideout in the Sun

Human Pork Chop

I Woke Up Early the Day I Died

Into the Night

The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow

It Happened in Broad Daylight

Joshûu 101: Shaburi

La ragazza dei lillà

Las esclavas

Mama's Dirty Girls

Memories of Murder

살인의 추억

Song Kang-ho

Kim Sang-kyung

Kim Roi-ha

Song Jae-ho

Byun Hee-bong

Go Seo-hee

Ryu Tae-ho

Park No-shik

Park Hae-il

Jeon Mi-seon

Seo Young-hwa

Woo Go-na

Choi Jong-ryul

Yoo Seung-mok

Shin Hyeon-jong

Jung In-sun

Lee Jae-eung

Kwon Byung-gil

Park Hyun-young

Yoon Ga-hyun

Kwon Hyeok-pung

Jo Deok-jae

Jo Moon-ee

Baek Bong-ki

Kim Joo-ryoung

Yeom Hye-ran

Park Jin-woo

Lee Dong-yong

Oh Yong

Son Jin-hwan

Park Tae-kyeong

Son Kang-gook

Son Jin-ho

Shin Un-seop

Kim Ha-kyeong

Lee Da-il

Shim Sung-bo

Lee Kang-san

Lee In-hui

Seong Jeong-seon

Yoo In-soo

Kang Jong-ik

Jung Do-ahn

Bong Joon Ho

Lee Kang-bok

Noh Jong-yun

Kim Hyung-koo

Taro Iwashiro

Tcha Sung-jai

Kim Sun-min

Kim Moo-ryoung

Woo Seung-mie

You Cheong

Jung Chang-hyun

Shin Jae-ho

Lee Ik-su

Ryu Seong-hie

Kim Byeong-gi

Kim Gwang-rim

Yang Hong-sam

Lee Yong-kii

Lee Hee-eun

Masa Sakuma

Kyung-bo Yeo

Akiko Takakuwa

Lee Yong-jun

Kim Chul-yong

Hwang Hyun-gyu

Jay Choi

Lee Seung-yeop

Choi Tae-young

Kim Yoo-seon

Lee In-gyu

Chin Hee-moon

assassin

police brutality

corruption

police

detective

investigation

victim

based on true story

based on play or musical

murder

serial killer

torture

brutality

killer

neo-noir

frantic

1980s

anxious

south korea

dramatic

Doch eines ist sicher, alle die sich auf das koreanische Kino einlassen können werden bei „Memories of a Murder“ mit einem Film belohnt, der nachwirkt, der nach dem Abspann nicht nur ein weiterer gesehener Film ist. Man liest es vielleicht aus dieser Rezension raus, dass „Memories of a Murder“ überzeugen konnte und genau deswegen sollte auch klar sein, was Ihr nun tun solltet. Genau! Schaut Euch „Memories of a Murder“ an. Überzeugt Euch selbst davon, wie vielschichtig und spannend dieser Film ist. Fiebert selbst mit den Ermittlern mit und rätselt wer die Taten begangen hat. „Memories of a Murder“ ist sicher kein einfacher Film und auch kein „Feel Good“-Film, aber ein mehr als sehenswerter Film. [Sneakfilm.de]

This is cracking serial killer drama from Bong Joon Ho - with some superb performances - that tracks a police investigation trying almost every technique known to man to trace a rapist/murderer who is terrorising young women (especially if it is raining and if they are wearing red). Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim and Roe-ha Kim don't exactly see eye to eye as they set about their task, adopting some scientific and not-so scientific approaches to their detection. The stylish and witty writing allows the characters to develop at a slow, but steady and interesting pace - using humour, pathos and violence - and at times it is the methods and attitudes of the police that appear under more scrutiny than the perpetrator of the crimes! Sadly, though, it does sag towards the end. The sharp pace of the writing and the intensity of the performances having reached a pretty high plateau, comes off the boil a bit and I found the ending annoyingly self-defeating: the identity of the criminal being less important to me than the collapsing integrity of those charged with his discovery. We never quite get back to that high standard of storytelling achieved in the first 90 minutes and as the quirkiness of the plot becomes more subsumed into the increasing frustrations of the investigators, the film becomes more and more a generic crime thriller losing much of its uniqueness. Certainly well worth watching, but perhaps it could have been shaved a bit to maintain the jeopardy.

Genre: Crime