– Deleted scenes, with optional audio commentary by Bong – Documentary from 2004 on the making of the film – New interview with Bong about the real-life serial killer who inspired the film – New interview with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro – Two 2003 commentaries featuring Bong and members of the cast and crew, plus a new commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns – New 4K digital restoration, supervised by cinematographer Kim Hyung Ku and approved by director Bong Joon Ho, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray (above) An amusing observation/conclusion that I noticed when watching Bong’s interview on one of the supplementary materials included.ĭIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES I'm currently watching the supplementary materials on the blu-ray release of Bong Joon-ho's Memories Of Murder (2003), and in this 2004 interview here are the director's famous last words – /P0ZYlCMuhS ![]() (above & below) Memories receive the 2 disc release treatment, which is always welcomed as it usually means that the feature presentation can get a higher bitrate encoding on its own disc, and therefore the best possible video quality. Here are some pictures of the blu-ray set and its contents – I seldom double-dip movie titles that I already own, but as Memories of Murder is quite possibly my favorite South korean film of all times, certainly in my top 3, I had to pick up this new Criterion release, on account of the new 4K remaster as well as additional supplementary materials. He of course went on to direct other impressionable films like The Host, Mother, Okja and of course Parasite. Memories of Murder was one of the notable films back in the earlier 2000s that really opened my eyes to the film-making powerhouse that is South Korea, and indeed Bong Joon-ho as well. ![]() Combining a gripping procedural with a vivid social portrait of the everyday absurdity of life under military rule, Bong fashions a haunting journey into ever-deepening darkness that begins as a black-comic satire and ends as a soul-shattering encounter with the abyss. ![]() Based on the true story of a string of serial killings that rocked a rural community in the 1980s, Memories of Murder (2003) stars New Korean Cinema icon Song Kang Ho as the local officer who reluctantly joins forces with a seasoned Seoul detective (Kim Sang Kyung) to investigate the crimes-leading each man on a wrenching, yearslong odyssey of failure and frustration that will drive him to the existential edge. In his breakthrough second feature, Bong Joon-Ho explodes the conventions of the policier with thrillingly subversive, genre-defying results.
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