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JSA - Joint Security Area (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 11 Fresh: 8  Rotten:3 Average Rating: 6.9/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs

Synopsis: This Korean thriller mines the historic tension between North and South Korea over activity in the JSA, the Joint Security Area, a region guarded by armies from both counties. When two North Korean soldiers are found dead there, it sets off a political chain of events that threatens to plunge... This Korean thriller mines the historic tension between North and South Korea over activity in the JSA, the Joint Security Area, a region guarded by armies from both counties. When two North Korean soldiers are found dead there, it sets off a political chain of events that threatens to plunge the countries into war. [More]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Kang-ho Song

Director: Chan Wook Park

DVD Info

Release:

Dec 7, 2005

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region (unknown)
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Surround Sound 5.1 English
  • Dolby Stereo 2.0 English
  • Dolby Surround Sound 5.1Korean

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Park tries to make us believe that the men soldiers on both sides would have no trouble bonding if ideologies and uniforms didn't get in the way of things.

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09/25/07
Dennis Schwartz
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4/5

No review available.

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01/09/07
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies
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5/5

Além do impecável senso estético de Park e de seu imenso talento para a narrativa, o filme traz uma bela mensagem humanitária e anti-bélica.

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05/07/06
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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10/10/05
Emanuel Levy
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09/26/05
Onion AV Club
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5/5

It’s another triumph from one of the world’s best new filmmakers, and it is not to be missed.

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07/16/05
David Cornelius
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3/4

Suspenseful and psychologically rich.

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06/16/05
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
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3/5

A beguiling mix of the generic and the unfamiliar, and it ends on a shot that's nothing short of heartbreaking.

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06/15/05
Maitland McDonagh
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2/4

I can't be as enthusiastic.

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06/15/05
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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Park Chan-Wook's Joint Security Area is a fairly straightforward whodunit with a pointedly political theme and an unapologetically humanist message.

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06/15/05
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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Park's film reveals its double agency by swinging between emotion-charged flashbacks of weepie male bonding and the investigative longueurs of the icy, half-Korean, half-Swedish female officer in charge of mopping up the brotherly bloodbath.

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06/14/05
Chuck Stephens
Village Voice
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3.5/4

An intelligent murder mystery set at the only meeting point between North and South Korea, whose tragic solution reveals the war zone's tension between hate and humanity.

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03/11/03
Joshua Tanzer
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