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Greetings Film Fiends and welcome to John Doe's Film Blog. 30 years of dedicated celluloid obsession has meant that I have seen a few films. Drawing attention to some of the lesser discussed gems that I love. Cult classics, obscure curios and quality genre pictures. This blogs purpose is to translate some of my passion for these films and with luck, inspire you the reader to go check em out.
The Glorious Oriental Western trend continues...


The poster with no name walks into a frontier town.
The Good The Bad The Weird



High on John Doe’s list of must see films screening at this years Sydney Film Festival is the new Takashi Miike Spaghetti Western Parody titled Sukiyaki Western Django. The idea of an Eastern minded tribute to the Sergio Leone style mythic cowboy legends demands JD’s full attention.

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The comic book style The Good The Bad The Weird banner



Peeking and foraging around the darkened recesses of cinema on the net John Doe stumbled across a similar project scheduled for release in some countries. The trailer for this new Korean film, The Good The Bad, The Weird has to be shared. (Even if there is no local date appearing on the calendar.)

Referencing the title of Leone’s best known work with an oriental spin, the footage below reveals some John Woo/Sam Peckinpah bullet wielding. From koreanfilm.or.kr:
“Inspired by the Sergio Leone classic The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, the film also builds off a string of Korean genre films from the 1970s that combined the aesthetics of the Western with outlaw movements aligned against Japanese colonial forces.”

The hero with no name?
The Good The Bad The Weird character teaser


Rapidly reloaded Winchester rifles crack a gunpowder atmosphere. The sound of hoofs come up beside a moving train. Holsters are reached for, pistols swiftly fired, gun-barrels emptied and the slain fall to the ground. Death is always present, the heat unrelenting setting the scene for showdowns.

Directed by Kim Ji-woon (A Tale of Two Sisters, A Bittersweet Life) Woo-sung Jung (Musa: the Warrior) plays The Good. The Bad is Lee Byung-hun (A Bittersweet Life, G.I. Joe) and The Weird, Kang-ho Song. (The Host)

Shame it’s not screening at the Sydney Film festival, Johnny would have been in the audience.

The Good, the Bad, The Weird Trailer


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Sympathy for Lady Vengeance – Another FilmInk Review

This is a review that was published in FilmInk I did awhile ago. Figured with Cib’s review of the confronting thrillride Old Boy igniting interest in the second part, it would be a good time to focus on the final chapter.

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance Poster
Available on DVD in Australia
Title: Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
Year:2005
Rating:TBC
Genre:Thriller
Director:Chan-wook Park
Cast:Yeong-ae Lee, Min-sik Choi, Tony Barry, Anne Cordiner,
Distributor: Madman
Available: September 2006
The Film: 4 out of 5


Cult Korean Director Chan-wook Park continues his emotional and psychological examination of revenge and retribution.

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance aka Chinjeolhan Geumjassi is the final installment in this profound trilogy that began with Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (2002) then Old Boy (2003).

This time around time it is a female trapped in the maelstrom of violence and guilt. Geum Ja Lee (Yeoung-ae Lee) has been in prison 13 years for the brutal abduction and slaughter of an 8 year old school boy. The film opens on the day of her release to a tidal wave of media coverage and public outrage.

Physically she is beautiful with a soft appearance, inside rages an inner turmoil of incomprehensible proportions. Once free she immediately begins implementing a mysterious plan she has been obsessing over in prison that appear to revolve around Mr Baek, (Min-sik Choi) an ex teacher of hers.

As we have come to expect the film delves deeply into how violence destroys the soul. How brutality can be cathartic and the ugly beauty of atonement. The ambiguity of evil and the effect sin has on the human psyche.

The fractured narrative and bold precise editing suck you in like a vacuum, the surreal cinematography and enthralling character performances keep you on edge. The textured dialogue laced with pitch black comedy is entertaining and thoughtful.

Extras include a Directors commentary, behind the scenes feature and trailers, unpreviewed
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See the Sympathy for Lady vengeance Trailer

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