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Joint Security Area
2000
· Movie
· 110 min
A
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #474
- IMDb #771
- Rotten Tomatoes #758
- Metacritic #2076
- Letterboxd #190
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1293
+5 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #708
- Metacritic Audience #1115
- Kinopoisk #297
- AlloCiné #268
- Trakt #527
Every rating
58–96
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 58, highest is Google on 96.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, a shooting incident leaves two North Korean soldiers dead. A neutral Swiss-Swedish investigator is called in to determine what happened. Her investigation uncovers a complex and hidden friendship between soldiers from both sides, challenging the official narrative and the political tensions of the border.
Details
- Director
- Park Chan-wook
- Writers
- Jeong Seong-san, Kim Hyun-seok, Lee Mu-yeong, Park Chan-wook
- Based on
- DMZ by Sang-yeon Park
- Studio
- CJ Entertainment, Intz.com, KTB Network, Myung Films
- Released
- 9 September 2000
- Country
- South Korea
- Language
- Korean, English, German
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Budget
- $12.5M
- Box office
- $20.3M
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Cast
Full cast (33) →
Awards
22 wins & 16 nominations total
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