Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (; "Vengeance Is Mine") is a 2002 South Korean neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook, who co-wrote the script with Lee Jae-soon, Lee Moo-young, and Lee Yong-jong. Starring Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, and Bae Doona, the film follows an ill-fated kidnapping of a wealthy man's daughter, leading to a path of vengeance.
Plot
Ryu is a deaf-mute man who works in a factory. His ailing sister is in desperate need of a kidney transplant. Unfortunately Ryu's blood type is not a match. After he loses his job, Ryu contacts a group of black market organ dealers to exchange one of his kidneys as well as 10 million Won for one that his sister can use. However, the dealers disappear after taking Ryu's kidney and severance money. A legitimate kidney donor is found, but after having been conned by the organ dealers, Ryu is unable to afford the operation. To raise money, Yeong-mi, Ryu's radical anarchist girlfriend, suggests kidnapping the daughter of the executive who fired Ryu. They observe the executive with company president Park Dong-jin arriving at the latter's home one day, where one of Dong-jin's former employees, Peng, attempts to commit harakiri in front of them. Ryu and Yeong-mi change their plan, deciding to kidnap Dong-jin's young daughter Yu-sun instead.
More details
| author | Lee Mu-yeong Park Chan-wook |
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| director | Park Chan-wook |
| editor | Kim Sang-bum |
| events | revenge |
| genre | action crime thriller |
| keywords | abandon achilles tendon anarchist baseball bat black market blood type booby trap deaf-mute disabled former employee harakiri id job termination kidnap kidney donor kidney transplant kill local radio organ dealers organ trafficking paint radio program radio station river riverbed young daughter |
| musicBy | Baik Hyun-jhin Jang Young-gyu |
| producer | Im Jin-gyu |
| productionCompany | TMS Entertainment |
| publisher | CJ Entertainment Palisades Tartan |
| theme | neo-noir south korean |