Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Korean)
There are actually two men seeking revenge in "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance," though I guess "Sympathy for Mssrs. Vengeance" would have been a strange title. Ah -- or perhaps we are meant to sympathize with one vengeance-seeker and not the other. So many mysteries, and we haven't even gotten to the actual movie yet! Chan-wook Park's 2002 film is the first in his Revenge Trilogy, followed by "Oldboy" and "Lady Vengeance," and while "Oldboy" is a better and more fully realized film, you can see Park's sensibilities emerging in "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance." He introduces a deaf and mute young man named Ryu (Ha-kyun Shin) whose sister (Ji-Eun Lim) is desperately in need of a kidney transplant. An effort to obtain one on the black market is botched, leading Ryu and his anarchist girlfriend Cha (Du-na Bae) to hatch a truly hare-brained scheme: kidnap a businessman's daughter and use the ransom money to buy an organ.
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