
Lady Vengeance
Lady Vengeance (; ; titled Sympathy for Lady Vengeance in Australia and Russia) is a 2005 South Korean 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 6-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.
Cast
- Cha Soon-bae
- Choi Hee-jin
- Choi Jung-woo
- Choi Min-sik
- Go Soo-hee
- Kang Hye-jung
- Kim Bu-seon
- Kim Byeong-ok
- Kim Hui-su
- Kim Ik-tae
- Kim Shi-hoo
- Kim Yoo-jung
- Ko Chang-seok
- Lee Byung-joon
- Lee Dae-yeon
- Lee Jung-yong
- Lee Seung-sin
- Lee Young-ae
- Nam Il Woo
- Oh Dal-su
- Oh Kwang-rok
- Ra Mi-ran
- Ryu Seung-wan
- Seo Ji-hee
- Shin Ha-kyun
- Song Kang-ho
- Tony Barry
- Yoon Jin-seo
- Yu Ji-tae
More details
author | Jeong Seo-kyeong Park Chan-wook |
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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 | psychological thriller snuff south korean women in prison |