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SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE

Revenge Was Never This Sweet

2002 · 02:09:00 · R · Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller · IMDB TMDB

A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' friend's daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant.

About This Film

Ryu is a deaf-mute man who works in a factory. His ailing sister is in desperate need of a kidney transplant, but Ryu's is not a match. After he loses his job, Ryu contacts a group of black market organ dealers to exchange one of his kidneys for one that his sister can use. However, the dealers disappear after taking Ryu's kidney and severance money.

A legitimate kidney donor is found, but after having been conned by the organ dealers, Ryu is unable to afford the operation. To raise money, Yeong-mi, Ryu's radical anarchist girlfriend, suggests kidnapping the daughter of the executive that fired Ryu. They observe the executive with company president Park Dong-jin arriving at the latter's home one day, where one of Dong-jin's employees, Peng, attempts to commit harakiri in front of them. Ryu and Yeong-mi change their plan, deciding to kidnap Dong-jin's young daughter Yu-sun.

Yu-sun stays with Ryu's sister, who believes that Ryu is babysitting her. Ryu and Yeong-mi send a request for ransom to Dong-jin, and he obliges. Upon returning home with the ransom money, Ryu discovers that his sister learned that Yu-sun was kidnapped and not wanting to be a burden any longer, has committed suicide.

Ryu takes Yu-sun and his sister's body to a riverbed they frequented as children to bury her. Distracted by the burial and unable to hear, Ryu is unaware when Yu-sun slips into the river, and she drowns. After Yu-sun's body is discovered by authorities, a deeply mournful Dong-jin hires an investigator to find her kidnappers. Dong-jin finds Ryu's sister's corpse by the riverbed, interacts with a mentally disabled man who witnessed Ryu burying his sister, and begins to piece together the identities of Ryu and Yeong-mi.

Ryu, armed with a baseball bat, locates the organ traffickers and murders them, receiving a stab wound in the process. Meanwhile, Dong-jin finds Yeong-mi and tortures her with electricity, also killing a deliveryman who comes to her apartment. She apologizes for Yu-sun's death but warns Dong-jin that her terrorist friends will kill him if she dies. Unfazed, Dong-jin electrocutes her to death. Ryu returns to Yeong-mi's apartment and sees the police removing her corpse.

Dong-jin knocks Ryu unconscious with a booby trap. He takes Ryu to the riverbed where his daughter died and drags him into the water. Dong-jin slashes Ryu's Achilles tendon and waits for him to drown. After Dong-jin dismembers Ryu's corpse, Yeong-mi's anarchist associates arrive. They stab Dong-jin, pin a note to his chest with a knife, and leave him to die.

Keywords

Female Nudity Murder Female Rear Nudity Nudity Female Topless Nudity Violence Blood Death Sex Scene Revenge Bare Chested Male Male Rear Nudity Cigarette Smoking Male Nudity Corpse Torture Doctor Telephone Call Fight Knife Blood Splatter Stabbed To Death Kidnapping Stabbing Suicide Boyfriend Girlfriend Relationship Photograph Father Daughter Relationship Slapped In The Face Breasts Hospital Beating Attempted Rape Brother Sister Relationship Funeral Coffin Crying Dead Woman Stabbed In The Back Mirror Money Dark Comedy Electrocution Masturbation Stabbed In The Chest Hallucination Dismemberment Tied Up Robbery Police Investigation

Also Known As

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, 復仇三部曲之復仇, Boksuneun naui geot, 復讐者に憐れみを, Mr. Vingança, Vengeance Trilogy 1 - Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Em Nome da Vingança, Сочувствие господину Месть, Sympathy for Mister Vengeance, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, 复仇, 복수는 나의 것, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance