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Lady Vengeance 2005

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 112 min

genre: thriller

theme: neo-noir

director: Park Chan-wook

Score: 7 / 10

Lady Vengeance (; ; titled Sympathy for Lady Vengeance in Australia and Russia) is a 2005 South Korean neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook. The film is the third and final installment in Park's Vengeance Trilogy, following Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and Oldboy (2003). It stars Lee Young-ae as Lee Geum-ja, a woman released from prison after serving the sentence for a murder she did not commit. The film tells her story of revenge against the real murderer.

Plot

A Christian musical procession waits with a symbolic block of tofu outside a prison for the release of Lee Geum-ja (Lee Young-ae), a reformed female prisoner. Convicted of kidnapping and murdering a 5-year-old schoolboy, Won-mo, 13 years earlier, Geum-ja became a national sensation because of her young age, angelic appearance, and eager confession to the crime. However, she became an inspirational model for prisoner reform during her incarceration, and her apparent spiritual transformation earned her an early release. Free, she is now intent on revenge.

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author	Jeong Seo-kyeong Park Chan-wook
director	Park Chan-wook
editor	Kim Jae-bum Kim Sang-bum
events	revenge
genre	crime drama thriller
keywords	abandon adopt annoy baby beat cell phone christian christian music christianity crime scene female prisoner high school student horrify kidnap kill missing child murder pastry shop plan reform seoul shoot snuff film tape tofu torture videotape young age
musicBy	Jo Yeong-wook
nomination	European Film Award for Best Non-European Film
producer	Jo Yeong-wook Lee Tae-hun
publisher	CJ Entertainment
theme	neo-noir psychological thriller snuff south korean women in prison