The Vengeance Trilogy Box Set!

 
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The Vengeance Trilogy Box Set (PalisadesTartan) is a thrilling collection of three brilliant films by South Korean master filmmaker Park Chan-Wook. Included are:
  
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance
: When the sister of a deaf factory worker named Ryu -- played by Ha-Kyan Shin (Thirst) -- falls ill and is in need of a kidney transplant, he foolhardily kidnaps the daughter of his former boss for a ransom (to pay for the operation). Everything ultimately spins out of control in this masterful tale of fatal retribution, the first in his Vengeance trilogy

Old Boy. Winner of the 2004 grand prize at the Cannes film festival, this brutal, wildly cinematic, Kafkaesque thriller stars Choi Ming-Shik as Oh Dae-su, a loudmouthed drunk, who gets abducted one night and finds himself imprisoned in a strange impregnable room for 15 years. When he just as mysteriously finds himself freed, he seeks spectacular revenge on the person responsible with the help of a lovely young sushi chef (Gang Hye-Jeong). It's like a Charles Bronson film filtered through Quentin Tarantino's sensibility. Whether he's chomping on live octopus or fending off a hallway of attackers with the claw end of a hammer, Choi Ming-Shik gives an astonishing, raw, mesmerizing, performance. 

 Lady Vengeance: This crowning conclusion to South Korean master Park Chan-Wook's revenge trilogy stars Lee Young-ae as Lee Geum-ja, released from jail after a 13 year sentence for the brutal slaying of a child. She gets a job at a bakery and rounds up her old female cellmates to help cook up her massive campaign of payback on the person really responsible for the murder. The film exquisitely addresses the emotional toll on those who seek revenge as the film takes a big shift towards the end. It then transforms into a dark fairy tale where the villagers get to take on the ogre that torments them. The score is lush with Vivaldi to offset the violence, and the movie reaches a dizzying finale of rapturous retribution. And, yes, even grace.
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