I Saw the Devil
I Saw the Devil is a 2010 South Korean action thriller film directed by Kim Jee-woon and written by Park Hoon-jung. Starring Lee Byung-hun and Choi Min-sik, the film follows NIS agent Kim Soo-hyun (Lee), who embarks on a quest of revenge when his fiancée is brutally murdered by the psychopathic serial killer Jang Kyung-chul (Choi). I Saw the Devil made its premiere in the United States at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and had a limited U.S theatrical release.
Plot
One night, a school-bus driver named Jang Kyung-chul encounters a pregnant woman named Jang Joo-yun and offers to fix her flat tire. After beating her unconscious, Kyung-chul dismembers Joo-yun at his home, and while doing so, Joo-yun's ring falls. Kyung-chul ignores it and scatters the body parts into a local stream. When a boy discovers one of Joo-yun's ears, the police arrive en masse to conduct a search, led by Section Chief Oh and Squad Chief Jang, Joo-yun's devastated father. The victim's fiancé, Kim Soo-hyun, an NIS officer is also present and vows to take revenge against the murderer.
More details
author | Park Hoon-jung |
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contentLocation | Seoul |
director | Kim Ji-woon |
editor | Nam Na-yeong |
events | revenge serial killer splatter film |
genre | action thriller |
keywords | abandon achilles tendon arrest beat body part cannibalism engagement ring fall flat tire gps tracker guillotine hospital room injured kill listen makeshift guillotine national intelligence service ni one night pregnant woman search set up slash small town steal talk taxi transmitter truck stop |
musicBy | Mowg |
producer | Kim Hyun-woo |
productionCompany | Finecut Peppermint & Company Softbank Ventures Korea |
publisher | Magnet Releasing Showbox |
recordedAt | Seoul |
theme | cannibal chase dance rape rape and revenge real time serial killer south korean splatter vigilante |