| The Good, the Bad, the Weird | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Hangul | 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈 |
| Revised Romanization | Joeun nom, nappeun nom, isanghan nom |
| McCune–Reischauer | Choŭn nom, nappŭn nom, isanghan nom |
| Directed by | Kim Jee-woon |
| Written by | Kim Jee-woon Kim Min-suk |
| Produced by | Kim Jee-woon Choi Jae-won |
| Starring | Song Kang-ho Lee Byung-hun Jung Woo-sung |
| Cinematography | Lee Mo-gae |
| Edited by | Nam Na-yeong |
| Music by | Dalpalan Jang Young-gyu |
Production companies | Barunson Co. Ltd. Grimm Pictures[1] |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
Release dates |
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Running time | 139 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Languages | Korean Mandarin Japanese |
| Budget | US$10 million[2] |
| Box office | US$44.3 million |
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (Korean: 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈) is a 2008 South Korean Western action film directed by Kim Jee-woon and starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, and Jung Woo-sung.[3][4][5] The film is inspired by the 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and had a limited release in the U.S. on April 23, 2010.[6] It received positive reviews with critics praising the action, the cinematography and the direction. The film marks the second collaboration between actor Lee Byung-hun and director Kim Jee-woon, 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).
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