The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
- Original title
- 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈
- Directed by
- Kim Ji-woon
- Genre
- action film, adventure film, Manchurian Western
- Country
- South Korea
- Runtime
- 2h 19m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 824 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria in the late 1930s, three Korean outlaws chase a mysterious treasure map. The Good is a bounty hunter, the Bad is a killer, and the Weird is a train robber. Their paths cross in a wild shootout across the desert.
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What happens
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (Korean: 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈, romanized: Joeun nom, nappeun nom, isanghan nom) is a 2008 South Korean Western action film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Kim Jee-woon, and starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, and Jung Woo-sung. The film is an homage to the 1966 Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and is set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the late 1930s. The film marks the second collaboration between actor Lee and director Kim, who had previously collaborated on the action drama A Bittersweet Life (2005) and would later do so again in Kim's I Saw the Devil (2010). The Good, the Bad, the Weird premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and had a limited release in the U.S. on 23 April 2010. It received positive reviews with critics praising the action, the cinematography and the direction. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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