Not many places are worse to find a dead body than in the border of North and South Korea. The tensions are high, the trust is low, and the conflict between them hasn’t been resolved in more than half a century. Joint Security Area is centered on a whodunit surrounding two North Korean soldiers at the border, but Park Chan-wook crafts a compelling mystery not caused by international politics, but rather by friendship between soldiers in the lower ranks, a unity and brotherhood that’s tragically hidden and forced to separate because of lines made by their higher ups. It may not compare to Park’s more famous films, but Joint Security Area hinted at the filmmaker that was to come.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Actor: Byung Heon Lee, Byung-hun Lee, Christoph Hofrichter, Gi Ju-bong, Ha-kyun Shin, Herbert Ulrich, Jin Tae-hyeon, Ju-bong Gi, Kang-ho Song, Kim Kwang-il, Kim Myeong-su, Kim Myung-soo, Kim Tae-woo, Koh In-bae, Kwon Nam-hee, Lee Byung-hun, Lee Dae-yeon, Lee Do-yeop, Lee Han-wi, Lee Yeong-ae, Lee Young-ae, Myoeng-su Kim, Seo Jeong-gyu, Shin Ha-gyun, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Kang-ho, Tae-woo Kim, Yeong-ae Lee, Yoo Hyung-gwan
Director: Chan-wook Park, Park Chan-wook
Rating: Not Rated
