On December 9, 2024, Arrow (UK) is releasing the 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray for genre maestro Kim Jee-woon’s (A Tale of Two Sisters) 2018 kimchi western, The Good, the Bad, the Weird.
ONE MAP. THREE VILLAINS. WINNER TAKES ALL. Genre maestro Kim Jee-woon (A Tale of Two Sisters) set his sights on new frontiers and spiced them up with his rollicking kimchi western The Good, the Bad, the Weird.
Wrangling three of Korea’s biggest stars, he orchestrated an audacious action epic sweeping across the dusty Manchurian plains. In the 1930s, three gun-toting Koreans converge on a train with different objectives but after an explosive altercation they leave it with the same goal: track down a map leading to an unfathomable treasure. The ‘Good’ is bounty hunter Park Do-won (Jung Woo-sung, 12.12: The Day), who is chasing down the ‘Bad’, the ruthless bandit Park Chang-yi (Lee Byung-hun, A Bittersweet Life), rumoured to be the notorious ‘Finger Cutter’. Meanwhile, wily thief Yoon Tae-goo (Song Kang-ho, Parasite), the ‘Weird’, is on the hunt for anything he can get his hands on. Backs are stabbed, fingers are cut, and many bullets fly as this dangerous trio blast their way through the desert in search of untold riches.
This glorious resurrection of the Manchurian Western was the biggest and most ambitious production ever undertaken in Korea. Presented here for the very first time in stunning 4K, experience this spicy slice of wild west mayhem as you’ve never seen it before.
Features and details TBA.
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Enjoy the film’s classic Trailer:
I need to re-evaluate this film. Kim Jee Woon directing a Kimchi Western starring 3 of my favorite Korean actors should have been the greatest thing ever for me, but for some reason, I wasn’t engaged. I felt like the film was slow, and the characters remained uninteresting just when I thought I was gonna get to know them, and I didn’t think there was much in the way of action either.
Maybe I was having a bad day.
You’re making me re-evaluate the fact that I loved it back then. In my review, I mentioned, at the time, it wasn’t Kim Jee-Woon’s best film – It’s his best looking, no doubt and the pacing is excellent. But it’s not the step-above ‘A Bittersweet Life’ that I was hoping it would be. The action is what shines the most; it’s crisp, fast, inventive and brutal. A lot of it filmed with beautiful scope in mind, such as the horses running through gritty explosions; and even Road Warrior-style vehicle chases.