The Vengeance Trilogy

The Vengeance Trilogy
The Vengeance Trilogy Blu-ray
Directed byPark Chan-wook
Screenplay by
  • Park Chan-wook (13)
  • Lee Jae-sun (1)
  • Lee Jong-yong (1)
  • Lee Mu-yeong (1)
  • Hwang Jo-yun (2)
  • Lim Chun-hyeong (2)
  • Jeong Seo-Gyeong (3)
Produced by
  • Lee Jae-sun (1)
  • Lim Jin-gyu (1)
  • Kim Dong-joo (2)
  • Lim Seung-yong (2)
  • Cho Young-wuk (3)
  • J. J. Harris (3)
  • Beth Kono (3)
  • Lee Chun-yeong (3)
  • Lee Tae-hun (3)
Starring
Cinematography
  • Chung Chung-hoon (23)
  • Kim Byeong-il (1)
Edited by
Music by
Production
companies
  • CJ Entertainment (1)
  • Studio Box (1)
  • Egg Films (2)
  • Show East (2)
  • CJ Capital Investment (3)
  • Centurion Investment (3)
  • Ilshin Capital Investments (3)
  • Korea Capital Investment (3)
  • Moho Films (3)
  • Samsung Venture Capital (3)
  • TSJ Entertainment (3)
Distributed by
Release date
2002–2005
CountrySouth Korea
Languages
  • Korean (13)
  • English (3)
  • Japanese (3)
BudgetTotal (3 films):
$11.5 million[1][2][3]
Box officeTotal (3 films):
$40.7 million[4][5][6]

The Vengeance Trilogy (Korean: 복수 삼부작) is a South Korean thematically-linked film trilogy directed by Park Chan-wook, comprising Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005). Each film deals with the themes of revenge,[7] ethics,[8] violence and salvation. The films are not narratively connected and were dubbed a trilogy by international critics due to their thematic links.[9][10] The trilogy is considered a revision of the European revenge tradition set amid the 21st century globalization traumas in South Korea.[11]

  1. ^ Boksuneun naui geot (2002) - Box office / business
  2. ^ Oldeuboi (2003) - Box office / business
  3. ^ Associated, The (13 March 2014). "Movies | Movie Times | Tickets Online | MoviesTrailers - Moviefone.com". Screened.com. Archived from the original on 18 November 2011. Retrieved 2014-03-17.
  4. ^ "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2005)". Box Office Mojo. 16 February 2006. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  5. ^ "Oldboy (2005)". Box Office Mojo. 8 December 2005. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  6. ^ "Lady Vengeance (2006)". Box Office Mojo. 1 October 2006. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  7. ^ Choe, Steve (2009). "Love Your Enemies: Revenge and Forgiveness in Films by Park Chan-wook". Korean Studies. 33: 29–51. ISSN 0145-840X. JSTOR 23719259.
  8. ^ Herbert, D. (2012). "Trilogy as Third Term: Historical Narration in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy". Film trilogies : new critical approaches. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 181–197. doi:10.1057/9780230371972_10. ISBN 978-0-230-37197-2.
  9. ^ Park Chan-Wook’s “Vengeance Trilogy Archived 14 July 2012 at archive.today at the Dryden Theatre.
  10. ^ Film Review: The Vengeance Trilogy Archived 23 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine by film critic Richard Peña at Cine21 (in Korean)
  11. ^ Dodson-Robinson, Eric (2019). "Agents of the Other in Chan-wook Park's The Vengeance Trilogy". Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film Agents of Vengeance. Leiden: BRILL. p. 128. doi:10.1163/9789004401280_008. ISBN 9789004401280.