Part of MKC's Revenge Week (July 8-14, 2013).
If Revenge Week has achieved anything, it's confirmed beyond any doubt just how prevalent the theme of revenge is in Korean cinema. But exactly how many are there? That's a hard question to answer but here's our shot at a list covering every Korean revenge film we could think of.
This list is far from exhaustive and we encourage suggestions to improve it! Let us know what you think is missing in the comments below, on facebook or on twitter.
We also hope to create a user list of the best Korean revenge films this week so please use this a resource and tell us five of your favorites.
Enjoy!
26 Years | 2012 | Jo Geun-hyun |
90 Minutes | 2012 | Park Sun-uk |
A Better Tomorrow | 2010 | Song Hae-seung |
A Bittersweet Life | 2005 | Kim Jee-woon |
A Blood Pledge | 2009 | Lee Jong-yong |
A Bloody Battle For Revenge | 1992 | Lee Kyong-kyu |
A Company Man | 2012 | Lim Sang-yoon |
A Dirty Carnival | 2006 | Yu Ha |
A Frozen Flower | 2008 | Yu Ha |
A Good Lawyer’s Wife | 2003 | Im Sang-soo |
A Tale of Two Sisters | 2003 | Kim Jee-woon |
A Thousand Year Old Fox | 1969 | Shin Sang-ok |
A Werewolf Boy | 2012 | Jo Sung-hee |
A Woman after a Killer Butterfly | 1978 | Kim Ki-young |
All Bark no Bite | 2012 | Jo Byung-ok |
An Ethics Lesson | 2013 | Park Myung-rang |
Animal Town | 2009 | Jeon Kyu-hwan |
April Snow | 2005 | Hur Jin-ho |
Azooma | 2012 | Lee Ji-Seung |
Bad Guy | 2001 | Kim Ki-duk |
Barking Dogs Never Bite | 2000 | Bong Joon-ho |
Be My Guest | 2009 | Park Soo-young |
Bedevilled | 2010 | Jang Cheol-soo |
Bestseller | 2010 | Lee Jeong-ho |
Black Hair | 1964 | Lee Man-hee |
Blades of Blood | 2010 | Lee Joon-ik |
Bleak Night | 2010 | Yoon Sung-hyun |
Blood Rain | 2005 | Kim Dae-sung |
Bloody Fight in Iron-Rock Valley | 2011 | Ji Ha-jean |
Burning Revenge | 1971 | Lee Sang-gu |
Canton Viper | 1983 | Hwang Jeong-ri |
Carnivore | 1984 | Kim Ki-young |
Confession of Murder | 2012 | Jung Byoung-gil |
Countdown | 2011 | Huh Jong-ho |
Cruel Revenge | 1969 | Kim Gang-yun |
Crush and Blush | 2008 | Lee Kyoung-mi |
Cut | 2004 | Park Chan-wook |
Cyrano Agency | 2010 | Kim Hyeon-seok |
Dangerous Liaisons | 2012 | Hur Jin-ho |
Death Bell | 2008 | Yun Hong-seung |
Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp | 2010 | Yoo Sun-dong |
Desire to Kill | 2010 | Kim Sang-hwa, Jo Won-hee |
Diary of June | 2005 | Im Kyung-soo |
Die Bad | 2000 | Ryoo Seung-wan |
Dirty Blood | 2012 | Kang Hyo-jin |
Don’t Click | 2012 | Kim Tae-kyeong |
Don’t Cry Mommy | 2012 | Kim Yong-han |
Eoh Wu-dong | 1985 | Lee Jang-ho |
Epitaph | 2007 | Jung Bum-sik, Jung Sik |
Eungyo | 2012 | Chung Ji Woo |
Exit | 2013 | Lee Sang-woo |
Eye for an Eye | 2008 | Kwak Kyung-taek |
Fatal | 2012 | Lee Don-ku |
Forty Steps of Revenge | 1971 | Moon Sang-hun |
Friend | 2001 | Kwak Kyung-taek |
Gabi | 2012 | Chang Yoon-hyun |
Gangster High | 2006 | Park Ki-hyeong |
Happy End | 1999 | Chung Ji Woo |
Haunters | 2010 | Kim Min-suk |
Hindsight | 2010 | Lee Hyun-seung |
I Am Father | 2010 | Jeon Man-bae, Lee Se-young |
I Have Nothing | 1991 | Im Seon |
I Saw the Devil | 2010 | Kim Jee-woon |
I’m Your Daughter | 1971 | Jo Moon-jin |
Into the White Night | 2009 | Park Shin-woo |
Janus, Lady of Fire | 1987 | Kim Seong-soo |
Killer Toon | 2013 | Kim Yong-gyoon |
Lady Vengeance | 2005 | Park Chan-wook |
Man of Vendetta | 2010 | Woo Min-ho |
Martial Arts for Revenge | 1980 | Kim Jung-yong |
Melo | 2012 | Roy Lee |
Memento Mori | 1999 | Kim Tae-yong, min Kyu-dong |
Memories of Murder | 2003 | Bong Joon-ho |
Miracle in Cell No. 7 | 2013 | Lee Hwan-kyung |
Miss Conspirator | 2012 | Park Chul-kwan |
Moss | 2010 | Kang Woo-sung |
Mother | 2009 | Bong Joon-ho |
Mutt Boy | 2003 | Kwak Kyung-taek |
My Dear Enemy | 2006 | Lee Yoon-ki |
My Scary Girl | 2006 | Son Jae-gon |
New World | 2013 | Park Hoon-jung |
No Blood No Tears | 2002 | Ryoo Seung-wan |
No Doubt | 2010 | Park Soo-young |
No Mercy | 2010 | Kim Hyung-jun |
Oldboy | 2003 | Park Chan-wook |
Over My Dead Body | 2012 | Woo Sun-ho |
Parallel Life | 2010 | Kwon Ho-young |
Pieta | 2012 | Kim Ki-duk |
Pluto | 2012 | Shin Su-won |
Princess Aurora | 2005 | Bang Eun-jin |
Public Enemy | 2002 | Kang Woo-sung |
Real Fiction | 2000 | Kim Ki-duk |
Report of the Daughter-in-Law's Rice Flower | 1989 | Ryu Jae-moo |
Revenge | 1962 | Choi Gyeong-ok |
Revenge | 1988 | Kim In-soo |
Revenge | 1968 | Lee Hyeok-su |
Revenge for Me | 1967 | Kim Bong-whan |
Revenge of a Mother | 1970 | Lee Yu-seop |
Revenge of a Woman | 1971 | Lim Won-sick |
Revenge of Naejangseong | 1969 | An Dal-ho |
Revenge of the Grand Master of Martial Art | 1972 | Jang Jin-won |
Revenge of the Snake Woman | 1970 | Lee Yong-min |
Revenge of the Sword | 1971 | Im Kwon-taek |
Revengeful Sam-dol | 1970 | Kim Hyo-cheon |
Righteous Ties | ||
Road to Revenge | 2005 | Lee Woo-yeol |
Running Wild | 2006 | Kim Sung-soo |
Samaritan Girl | 2004 | Kim Ki-duk |
Save the Green Planet | 2003 | Jang Joon-hwan |
Scarlet Letter | 2004 | Byeon Hyeok |
Secret | 2009 | Yoon Jae-koo |
Secretly Greatly | 2013 | Jang Cheol-soo |
Seven Days | 2007 | Won Shin-yeon |
Silmido | 2003 | Kang Woo-suk |
Small Town Rivals | 2007 | Jang Gyu-seong |
Someone Behind You | 2007 | Oh Ki-hwan |
Soo | 2007 | Yoichi Sai |
Spellbound | 2012 | Hwang In-ho |
Spider Forest | 2004 | Song Il-gon |
Stateless Things | 2011 | Kim Kyung-mook |
Su-Jeong's Revenge | 1969 | An Dal-ho |
Sympathy for Mr.Vengeance | 2003 | Park Chan-wook |
Tazza: The High Rollers | 2006 | Choi Dong-hoon |
Tell Me Something | 1999 | Chang Yoon-hyun |
The Beast | 2011 | Hwang Yu-sik |
The Cat | 2011 | Byeon Seung-wook |
The Chaser | 2008 | Na Hong-jin |
The City of Violence | 2006 | Ryoo Seung-wan |
The Coast Guard | 2002 | Kim Ki-duk |
The Concubine | 2012 | Kim Dae-sung |
The Good, the Bad, the Weird | 2008 | Kim Jee-woon |
The Grand Heist | 2012 | Kim Joo-ho |
The Housemaid | 1960 | Kim Ki-young |
The Housemaid | 2010 | Im Sang-soo |
The Insect Woman | 1972 | Kim Ki-young |
The Isle | 2000 | Kim Ki-duk |
The King of Pigs | 2011 | Yeun Sang-ho |
The Last Witness | 1980 | Lee Doo-yong |
The Magic Sword of Revenge | 1970 | Gwon Yeong-sun |
The Man From Nowhere | 2010 | Lee Jung-beom |
The President’s Last Bang | 2005 | Im Sang-soo |
The Revengeful Man | 1970 | Pyeon Keo-young |
The Scam | 2009 | Yoon Sam-yeok |
The Servant | 2010 | Kim Dae-woo |
The Show Must Go On | 2007 | Han Jae-rim |
The Sword Of Revenge | 2003 | Park Sang-hyun |
The Thieves | 2012 | Choi Dong-hoon |
The Two Revengeful Hunchbacks | 1971 | Im Kwon-taek |
The Unjust | 2010 | Ryoo Seung-wan |
The Yellow Sea | 2010 | Na Hong-jin |
Thirst | 2009 | Park Chan-wook |
This Charming Girl | 2004 | Lee Yoon-ik |
Too Many Villains | 2011 | Harry Kim |
Troubleshooter | 2010 | Kwan Hyeok-jae |
Typhoon | 2005 | Kwak Kyung-taek |
Unbowed | 2011 | Chung Ji-young |
Untold Scandal | 2003 | E J-yong |
Voice | 2005 | Choi Ik-hwan |
War of the Arrows | 2011 | Kim Han-min |
Whispering Corridors | 1998 | Park Ki-hyung |
White Night | 2012 | Leesong Hee-il |
White: The Melody of the Curse | 2011 | Kim Gok, Kim Sun |
Who Broke the Red Rose Stem? | 1990 | Nam Gi-nam |
Wishing Stairs | 2003 | Yoon Jae-yeon |
Woman of Fire | 1971 | Kim Ki-young |
Woman of Fire ‘82 | 1982 | Kim Ki-young |
Yoga | 2009 | Yoon Jae-yeon |
Your Time Is Up | 2012 | Kim Sung-hyun |
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ReplyDeleteMy 5 Favorites ever are ..
Delete- Old Boy
- A man from nowhere
- The Yellow Sea
- Man of Vendetta
- Blood Rain
'Cruel Winter Blues' and 'A Bloody Aria' are missing, I think....
ReplyDelete'Forbidden Quest'?
ReplyDelete"Antarctic Journal'
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