The Good, the Bad, theWeird

In the 1930s Manchurian desert where lawlessness rules and many different ethnic groups clash, three Korean men fatefully meet each other on a train. Do-won is a bounty hunter who tracks down any criminals with rewards on their heads. Chang-yi is the leader of a group of tough-as-nails bandits. He cannot stand to be second best. Tae-goo is a train robber with nine lives. The three strangers engage in a chase across Manchuria to take possession of a map Tae-goo discovers while robbing the train. Also on the hunt for the mysterious map are the Japanese army and Asian bandits. In this unpredictable, escalating battle for the map, who will stand in the end as the winner?
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Script: Kim Jee-woon, Kim Min-suk
Cinematography: Lee Mogae
Editing: Nam Na-young
Sound: Oh Seung-chul
Music: Dalparan Chang Young-gyu
Actors: Song Kang-ho (Tae-goo), Lee Byung-hun (Chang-Yi), JungWoo-sung (Do-won)
Production: Cho Hwa-sung, Barunson Film Division & Grimm Pictures.
Producers: Choi Jae-won, Kim Jee-woon
Costumes: Kwon Yoo-jin, Choi Eui-young
Production Design: Cho Hwa-sung
Format: 35mm Color
Production Country: Korea
Production Year: 2008
Duration: 130
Contact: CJ Entertainment, KoreaT. +82 2 2017 1193heejeon@cj.netwww.cjent.co.kr

Kim Jee-woon

He was born in Seoul in 1964. He was a theater actor and director before making his film debut in 1998 with The Quiet Family, which he wrote and directed. After introducing a new genre that the director called “Gory Comedy” with The Quiet Family, he went on to explore other genres, such as comedy with The Foul King; horror with A Tale of Two Sisters; and film noir with A Bittersweet Life. The Good, the Bad, the Weird, an OrientalWestern, is yet another unfamiliar and fresh cinematic genre. The filmwas screened out of competition at the 2008 Cannes IFF.

Filmography

1998 The Quiet Family
2000 Coming Out(short)
2000 The Foul King/Banchikwang
2002 Memories (segment: Three)
2003 A Tale of Two Sisters/Janghwa
2005 A Bittersweet Life/ Dalkomhan insaeng
2008  The Good, the Bad, theWeird/Joheun-nom, Nabbeun-nom, Isanghan-nom