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Joint Security Area (2000)

Name: Joint Security Area
Director: Park Chan-wook
Genre: drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 7.7

Joint Security Area is a 2000 South Korean mystery thriller film directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook and based on the novel DMZ by Park Sang-yeon. It is Park Chan-wook's third film as director, and is frequently regarded as his first film with creative control; as he largely disowned his first two films, The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream (1992) and Trio (1997), Park himself prefers the film to be regarded as his…

Directed by Park Chan-wook · Music by Jo Yeong-wook · Ratio 2.35:1 · 110 min

Elsewhere

More by Park Chan-wook

The Brigands of Rattlecreek
The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream — 1992
Threesome — 1997
Judgement — 1999
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance — 2002
Oldboy — 2003
If You Were Me — 2003
Three... Extremes — 2004
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance — 2005
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK — 2006
Thirst — 2009
Night Fishing — 2010
Day Trip — 2012
Stoker — 2013
The Handmaiden — 2016
Decision to Leave — 2022
No Other Choice — 2025

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