---
title: 'Memories of Murder (2003)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Bong Joon-ho'
released: '2003-05-02'
runtime_minutes: 132
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Mystery'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'South Korea'
themes:
  - 'Order and Chaos'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/memories-of-murder-2003'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353969/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Memories of Murder (2003)

2003 · 132 min · Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Crime · South Korea

Original title: 살인의 추억

## Synopsis

Memories of Murder is a 2003 South Korean neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Bong Joon Ho, from a screenplay by Bong and Shim Sung-bo, and based on the 1996 play Come to See Me by Kim Kwang-lim. It stars Song Kang-ho and Kim Sang-kyung. In the film, detectives Park Doo-man (Song) and Seo Tae-yoon (Kim) lead an investigation into a string of rapes and murders taking place in Hwaseong in the late 1980s, by a man known as the Hwaesong Murderer. The film is a semi-biographical retelling of Korea's police hunting Lee Choon-jae.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Bong Joon-ho](https://cinepixo.com/people/bong-joon-ho)
- **Screenplay:** [Bong Joon-ho](https://cinepixo.com/people/bong-joon-ho)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Taro Iwashiro](https://cinepixo.com/people/taro-iwashiro)
- **Producer:** [Cha Seung-jae](https://cinepixo.com/people/cha-seung-jae)
- **Director of Photography:** [Kim Hyung-koo](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-hyung-koo)
- **Editor:** [Kim Seon-min](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-seon-min)

## Cast

- [Lee Jae-eung](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-jae-eung)
- [Byun Hee-bong](https://cinepixo.com/people/byun-hee-bong)
- [Kim Roe-ha](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-roe-ha)
- [Park Hae-il](https://cinepixo.com/people/park-hae-il)
- [Oh Yong](https://cinepixo.com/people/oh-yong)
- [Jung In-sun](https://cinepixo.com/people/jung-in-sun)
- [Jeon Mi-seon](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeon-mi-seon)
- [Ko Seo-hui](https://cinepixo.com/people/ko-seo-hui)
- [Song Kang-ho](https://cinepixo.com/people/song-kang-ho)
- [Kim Sang-kyung](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-sang-kyung)
- [Kwon Byeong-gil](https://cinepixo.com/people/kwon-byeong-gil)

## Themes & motifs

- [Order and Chaos](https://cinepixo.com/topics/order-and-chaos) (theme) — A procedural whose procedures fail one by one — forensics, coercion, intuition — until the case is simply left open, staring back.

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Official site: http://www.palmpictures.com/film/memories-of-murder
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/memories-of-murder-2003
Film facts: Wikidata (Q488169); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.