The Good, the Bad, the Weird
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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.
Technical Specifications
Supplements
- Includes both the International and Korean versions of the film presented via seamless branching
- Brand new audio commentary by film critic James Marsh and film critic and producer Pierce Conran
- Archival audio commentary by director Kim Jee-woon and actors Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, and Jung Woo-sung (International version)
- Archival audio commentary by director Kim Jee-woon, cinematographer Lee Mo-gae, lighting director Oh Seung-chul, and art director Cho Hwa-sung (Korean Version)
- A new introduction to the film by Kim Jee-woon
- Corralling chaos in the desert, a new interview with director Kim Jee-woon
- Dusty dust-ups and sweaty saddles, a new interview with martial arts coordinator Jung Doo-hong
- Archival making of films and featurettes
- Trailer gallery
- Image gallery