Tartan Films is scheduled to release SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE, the first chapter in Chan-Wook Park’s revenge trilogy that also featured OLDBOY, on August 19th. In anticipation of that rapidly approaching date they have dropped the final poster for the flick’s release, and the bad muthaf*ckers (shut your mouth) over at BlackFilm.com scooped a great look at it.
In case you’re unfamiliar with the premise, it goes like this: As the film opens, a radio announcer reads a foreboding message sent in by the deaf mute Ryu, an intense young man who has a dead end job in a smelting factory. Ryu idolizes his sister who is in urgent need of a kidney transplant. When he is fired from his job and is tricked out of his savings by organ traffickers, his trashy loud-mouthed girlfriend Yeong-mi suggests kidnapping his boss’s daughter Yu-sun for ransom to pay for his sister’s transplant. What starts as a desperate attempt to help his sister leads to a high stakes game of revenge between Ryu and his former boss Park Dong-jin that soon escalates into a modern day Greek tragedy.
Intrigued yet?
Just click on the image below to see the poster in full glory. And don’t forget to check out our article on SYMPATHY FOR MS. VENGEANCE, the final bow of this well received group.
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