Memories of Murder

(2003)

★ 8.1 IMDb · 4,795 votes

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Year: 2003

Runtime: 131 мин

Country: South Korea

Director: Пон Джун Хо

Cast: Сон Кан Хо, 김상경, 김뢰하, 송재호, 변희봉, Ко Со Хи, 류태호, 박노식, 박해일, 전미선

Plot

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.

1986. In a rural district of South Korea, two women have been recently raped and murdered. Working on the case are detectives Park Doo-man and Cho Yong-koo. Their efforts are impeded by some sloppy crime scene procedure by the police. Their methods of solving cases are also quite basic, essentially amounting to beating confessions out of suspects. All this leads to nothing and the police chief brings in a more sophisticated and intelligent detective from Seoul, Seo Tae-yoon. With his arrival the methods improve but they still don't have the killer. Then another woman is found murdered and a pattern emerges.