DIRECTOR: Bong Joon-ho
PRODUCER: Cha Seung-jae
PRODUCTION CO: CJ Entertainment, Sidus Pictures
​SCREENPLAY: Bong Joon-ho, Shim Sung-bo, based on the play Come to See Me by Kim Kwang-rim
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kim Hyung-koo
EDITOR: Kim Sun-min
MUSIC: Iwashiro Tarō
WITH: Song Kang-ho (Park Doo-man), Kim Sang-kyung (Seo Tae-yoon), Kim Roi-ha (Cho Yong-koo), Song Jae-ho (Sgt Shin Dong-chul), Byun Hee-bong (Sft Koo Hee-bong), Go Seo-hee (Officer Kwon Kwi-ok),  Ryu Tae-ho (Jo Byeong-sun), Park No-shik (Baek Kwang-ho), Park Hae-il (Hyeon-gyu)

FESTIVALS: Cannes, London, San Sebastian

REVIEWS

“Bong’s masterful, gonzo comic take on the police procedural won him worldwide acclaim and helped make the Korean New Wave a full-fledged international force. Set against the political turbulence of the 1980s, Memories of Murder traces the friction that develops between a pair of detectives — one a small-town investigator in over his head, the other a young hotshot from Seoul — as they try to catch a serial killer who is murdering women on rainy nights. But as each lead turns up a dead end, their investigation seems to wind only towards nihilistic despair. Based on the true story of South Korea’s first serial killer, this singular policier eschews crime thriller conventions in favour of a haunting, richly human exploration of failure and existential futility.”

– Film at Lincoln Centre

“Moving from atmospheric mystery to political allegory, with pit stops into slapstick comedy along the way, Memories of Murder, Bong Joon-ho’s second film, remains impossible to categorize. Newly restored and re-released, the director’s breakthrough feature has lost none of its power to unsettle, and today it feels even stranger than ever.”

– Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

​Canterbury
Monday, 19 February, 7.00pm

​Wellington   
Monday, 04 March, 6.15pm​

Timaru
​Tuesday, 12 March, 6.30pm

Auckland  
Monday, 25 March, 6.00pm

Whanganui   
Monday, 22 April, 7.00pm

Nelson  
Wednesday, 05 June, 6.00pm​

Hamilton   
Monday, 17 June, 6.30pm​

Dunedin
Wednesday, 26 June, 7.30pm

Queenstown
Tuesday 03 September, 8.00pm

Carterton   
Friday, 27 September, 7.00pm​
KOREAN CINEMA  selection >> ​