I Saw the Devil

I Saw the Devil

Akmareul boatda

Kyung-chul is a maniacal psychopath serial killer who drives a yellow school bus, preys on young women and kills for pleasure. He captures and kills his victims, but their deaths are not the end of his madness. While the police have been aware of his actions for some time and chasing him for a long time, they have never been able to put a name or face to his crimes. When the corpse of a retired police chief’s pregnant daughter surfaces, things change gears and the hunter quickly becomes the hunted. Yet it is not the girl’s father who swears vengeance, but rather her secret agent fiancé, Joo-yeon, who decides to track down the perpetrator himself. Anyone with even the remotest information on the killer’s whereabouts is in for a bloody beating. He vows to do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get the monstrous and inhumane killer.

About director:

Kim Jee-woon (b. 1964 in Seoul, South Korea) was a theatre actor and a director. Since feature-film debut "The Quiet Family", he has continually pushed the envelope and become a widely recognized talent in modern Korean cinema. From his psychological horror film "A Tale of Two Sisters" to his modern crime drama "A Bittersweet Life", to his essentially Korean take on the spaghetti kimchi western "The Good, the Bad, the Weird", Kim has routinely applied his signature style to a wide range of genres, garnering acclaim both in Korea and on the international film-festival circuit.

Selected filmography: "The Quiet Family" (1998), "The Foul King" (2000), "Coming Out" (2001, short), "Memories" (2002, short), "A Tale of Two Sisters" (2003), "A Bittersweet Life" (2005, "Kino pavasaris"), "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" (2008, screened in Lithuania), "I Saw the Devil" (2010, "Kino pavasaris").

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