, , five of the most classic Korean crime films are delivered.
1. "Yellow Sea"
"Yellow Sea" is the second feature film of Korean director Luo Hongzhen.
Luo Hongzhen, born in 1974 and now 46 years old, currently has only three feature films: "The Chaser" in 2008, "The Yellow Sea" in 2011, and "The Cry" in 2016. These three films have laid the foundation for Luo Hongzhen's status as a representative of directors of Korean crime films.
Compared with the first test cry of the debut "Chaser" and the extreme thriller of the recent work "The Cry", "Yellow Sea" has a more cruel and violent aesthetic style. "Yanbian God of War" is one of the "Three Great Wars of Korean Crime". "It comes from this "Yellow Sea" (the other two are Ding Qing, the "Elevator Ares" in "New World", and Ma Xidao, the "Toilet Ares" in "Crime City").
"Yellow Sea" is also Luo Hongzhen’s most popular film, and its Douban score is currently stable at 8.5. It also won the 48th Korean Film Bell Awards in 2011, including best film and best director. A total of 11 nominations, and finally won two awards for Best Supporting Actor (Jo Sung Ha) and Best Costume. His starring Ha Jung Woo was awarded in the 5th Asian Film Awards and the 47th Korean Baeksang Art Awards in the movie category In, with this film won the best actor award.
"Yellow Sea" is a beautiful work with distinctive regional characteristics and relying on such border regional characteristics to pave the criminal aesthetics. The story is between Yanbian, Jilin, China, Seoul, South Korea, and the Yellow Sea (the western Pacific fringe sea, the water is yellow). With twists and turns, Jiunan, a taxi driver, played by Ha Zhengyu, ran away in the story, showing the loneliness, panic, sadness, and involuntary destiny of the little people at the bottom of society. The scene at the end of the film takes place in the Yellow Sea at dawn, making the audience realize that is an icy movie .
2. "Montage"
As we all know, "montage" is a film editing technique, which includes two aspects of "picture editing" and "picture synthesis", just like the meaning of French film theorist Bazin's words: montage is the director's intention The film creation technique that guides the audience, South Korean director Jeong Geun-seop wrote and directed the crime thriller "Montage" in 2013, and he practiced this technique in a crime story with an astonishing reversal.
Ke Wenli directed the 2019 crime reasoning film, which eventually won over 1.1 billion yuan in the box office, "Manslaughter". This film solves crimes based on the protagonist's viewing volume. A large number of crime films are cited. "Montage". The story of
"Montage", through the same criminal method, seamlessly connects two bizarre kidnapping cases that have been separated by 15 years. Is this the same murderer's hand or imitated crime? The protagonist of the film and the police officer of the crime team, Wu Qinghao, is gradually uncovering the truth of the incident. It turns out that what is hidden in the terrorist crime incident is the unchanging, blood thicker than water family affection.
"Montage" is the source of the "learning" of "Manslaughter", so it tells crime stories about "clue editing and collage" just like "Manslaughter", but the flipping meaning of "Montage" is more obvious. This also makes "Montage" a high reputation film.
Currently, the Douban score of this movie is stable at 8.1, and the leading actress, Yan Zhenghua, won the Best Actress Award at the 50th Korean Film Grand Bell Awards in 2013 for her performance in this film.
3. "The Beginning and End of the Kim Funan Murder"
, the Korean director Jang Cheol-soo, who was the same year as the "Yellow Sea" director Luo Hongzhen, launched his self-written and directed female crime masterpiece "The Beginning and End of the Kim Funan Murder" in 2010.
Director Zhang Cheol-soo’s style is not fixed, and his level of performance is not stable. He has directed the action film "Secret and Great" starring Kim Soo Hyun. He also launched the Chinese-Korea co-produced film in 2016 with a 3.4-point Douban "Honeymoon Hotel". murdering case".
There is no doubt that "The Beginning and End of the Kim Funan Murder" by Douban 8.5 is the most outstanding film directed by Zhang Zhezhu.
This is about a KoreanThe island farming women, unable to tolerate the physical and mental abuse of their husbands and their families, finally decided to become the Queen of Revenge. Even if it is included in the entire Korean crime movie pedigree, it is a sufficiently unique work. The uniqueness of
is mainly reflected in two aspects: First, to a certain extent, it shows the barbarism hidden in Korean farming culture, and integrates the deep-rooted patriarchal consciousness in Korean society into this barbarism; Second, is a truly female movie . Like the 2019 Korean hit "Jim Ji Young born in 1982", "The Beginning and End of the Kim Funan Murder" deeply reflects on the cruel status of Korean women in the family roots. .
Of course, in the display of violence, "The Beginning and End of the Kim Funan Murder" is the same as most crime movies in South Korea, without evasiveness and cover-ups, and at the same time full of the unique aesthetic style of Korean crime movies.
IV. "Old Boy"
"Old Boy" (also known as "Original Criminal") is the second part of the " revenge trilogy " by Korean celebrity director Park Chan-wook and the most famous one. The other two parts of
"Vengeance Trilogy" are "I Want Revenge" (Part 1) and "The Kindly Gold" (Part 3).
"Old Boy" is a benchmark in Korean crime movies. Not only was it rated 8.2 by more than 200,000 people on Douban, it was also rated a rare 8.4 by more than 400,000 people on IMDb (IMDb score) There are only a handful of Korean films higher than Douban), which proves that Park Chan-wook is one of the most successful Korean directors to enter Hollywood, and this "Old Boy" is also well-known internationally: the 57th Cannes Film Festival in 2004, This film won the main competition unit jury award (second only to the historical documentary "Fahrenheit 911" by American director Michael Moore).
Regardless of the script, video, or performance, "Old Boy" is a crime film with the ultimate in style. In the film, there are both romantic images (snow, red coat, tears) like a Japanese pure love movie. In addition to the bloody and brutal violent aesthetic scenes with loss of dignity, there is no lack of horror plots that scare the audience.
Of course, there are audiences who questioned that "Old Boy" has a story that lacks realistic basis and is too dramatic. This is like the character logic of "Parasite" directed by Bong Joon-ho, which is actually unnecessary, because, The madness in the play of "Old Boy" just proves that the Korean crime film has reached the ultimate level of narrative , which is worthy of thinking about the domestic crime film.
5. "Seeing the Devil"
, born in 1964, the 56-year-old South Korean director Kim Ji-woon, launched the thriller crime movie "Seeing the Devil" in 2010.
This is a film that has a pivotal position in the hearts of Chinese fans. Every time a Korean movie is recommended, readers will comment on the movie, which shows that "Seeing the Devil" has had a strong visual and psychological impact on many Chinese fans. The Douban and IMDb ratings of
"Seeing the Devil" are currently stable at 7.8. It won the Best Editing Award at the 5th Asian Film Awards in 2011 and was nominated for the 10th Washington Film Critics in 2011 The People’s Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Although this film has not entered the first echelon of Korean crime film reputation, the main creative of the film is very interesting: in addition to the director Jin Jiyun, the other co-writer Park Hun Jung, has directed the production of "New World", "Witch", "Big Tiger" and other high-profile Korean films; the film starring Lee Byung-hyun and Choi Min-sik are among the best acting genres in Korean film circles.
"Seeing the Devil" is so impressive that it has nothing to do with the scale of the screen. This film involving dismemberment and serial murders, because some of the shots are too bloody, became the first commercial film of in South Korea to be restricted from being released , an old drama Choi Min-sik's interpretation of the perverted criminal Jang Kyung-chul is as exciting as Ha Jung-woo in the classic Korean crime film "The Chaser".
