Bad Guy

Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim

Overview

"A pair of unlikely lovers experience the harrowing realities of Seoul's red-light district as South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk's dark and erotic drama arrives on DVD stateside courtesy of Life Size Entertainment. The feature is presented in 1.85:1 anamo

Product Details

Release Date:	10/18/2005
UPC:	0880215100999
Original Release:	2001
Rating:	NR
Source:	Lifesize Ent.
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:40:00

Special Features

Theatrical trailer; Interview with director; Musical photo montages; Behind the scenes

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Cho Je-Hyun	Han-Gi
Seo Won	Sun-Hwa
Kim Yoon-Tae	Jung-Tae
Choi Duk-Moon	Myung-Soo
Choi Yoon-Young	Hyun-Ja
Shin Yoo-Jin	Min-Jung
Kim Jung-Young	Eun-Hye
Jo Jae-Hyeon	Han-ki
Jae-hyeon Jo	Actor
Won Seo	Actor
Park Ho-Jun	Composer
Park Ho-Joon	Composer

Technical Credits

Kim Ki-Duk

Kim Ki-Duk	Screenwriter
Lee Seung-Jai	Producer
Kim Seung-Beom	Executive Producer
Lee Seung-jae	Producer

Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Chapter 1 [5:52]
2. Chapter 2 [6:02]
3. Chapter 3 [5:58]
4. Chapter 4 [5:40]
5. Chapter 5 [5:15]
6. Chapter 6 [3:51]
7. Chapter 7 [7:36]
8. Chapter 8 [5:44]
9. Chapter 9 [4:26]
10. Chapter 10 [4:42]
11. Chapter 11 [5:45]
12. Chapter 12 [4:58]
13. Chapter 13 [4:13]
14. Chapter 14 [3:59]
15. Chapter 15 [5:34]
16. Chapter 16 [4:25]
17. Chapter 17 [5:01]
18. Chapter 18 [5:21]
19. Chapter 19 [5:28]
20. Chapter 20 [2:14]

Menu

Side #1 --
Play
Scenes
Set Up
Subtitles: On/Off
Audio: 5.1 Surround
Audio: 2.0 Stereo
Extras
Trailer
Behind the Scenes
Music Montage
Interview With Kim Ki Duk

Editorial Reviews

Kim Ki-duk, one of the most original Korean directors to emerge in the 1990s, makes films that are both brutal and dreamlike. He most well-known films, such as The Isle and Address Unknown, mix visual poetry with cruel, unflinching violence. Bad Guy, his most popular film to date, ups the ante by depicting, in excruciating detail, the physical and psychological degradation of a young woman (Seo Weon) forced into prostitution by the street thug who becomes infatuated with her. The thug, Han-ki (Jo Jae-hyeon), is mute. The only language he speaks is violence, and the film seems to imply that watching Sun-hwa's transformation from ordinary student to ruined streetwalker is a twisted form of love. Kim spares nothing in his depiction of the brutality inflicted on her. Han-ki watches her endure the abuse of clients and her madame through a one-way mirror until a kind of Stockholm Syndrome develops and she comes to need him almost as much as he needs her. Bad Guy is, needless to say, a disturbing film, made all the more disturbing by Kim's refined aesthetic sense, which makes it difficult to dismiss as an exercise in transgressive naughtiness. Its images stick, and depending on the viewer, its ending can be read as either uneasily poignant or outrageously offensive.