Lady Vengeance (2005)

Lady Vengeance (Shed Tears for Lady Vengeance) — 2005, Crime / Drama / Thriller After thirteen years behind bars for a crime she didn’t commit and the loss of her child, Lee Geum-ja is released with one goal: to make the real culprit pay. She enlists the help of the eccentric women she once shared a cell with and builds an exacting, increasingly brutal plan of retribution. As she closes in, Lee must also confront the daughter she was forced to give up and wrestle with a wrenching choice between revenge and atonement. Watching the film is a tense, emotionally charged experience: a slow-burning mystery and thriller that alternates between meticulous plotting and sudden, shocking violence. You’ll be pulled into Lee Geum-ja’s fragile, haunted interior through a powerful central performance, then unsettled as the film forces you to examine the moral cost of vengeance. Stylistically bold moments and darkly elegiac passages give the story a bittersweet, cathartic edge — viewers leave having felt both the cruelty and the yearning for redemption at the heart of the tale.

Actors: Nam-mi Kang, Jeong-nam Choi, Hye-Sook Go

Director: Park Chan-Wook

Runtime: 115 min

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

75 /100 7.5 /10 7.5 /10