2003 ["Bong Joon Ho"]

Memories of Murder

Name: Memories of Murder
Genre: [, ", t, r, l
Released: 2003
Rating: 8.1

★ 8.1 IMDb

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Who to Blame? by Philip Cheah, FIPRESCI Memories of Murder by Thomas Doherty, Cineaste Video Essay. Imitation, Contamination, Dissolution: Bong Joon-Ho's "Memories of Murder" by Cristina Álvarez López, MUBI Notebook Realistic, Like in a Movie: On Facts, Procedurals and Memories of Murders by Bart Versteirt, photogénie MEMORIES OF MURDER BY BONG JOON-HO by John A. Riley, Desistfilm

In conversation with other films

Korean monsters, Miami hard guys, and looping Tokyo by David Bordwell

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