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

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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