Chugyeokja (The Chaser) 2008 MA15+

When
6.00pm, Fri 17 Aug 2018 (125 mins)
Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
About
'The Chaser is a clever riff on cops-and-criminals formalism that interpolates old-fashioned plot devices (a missing girl, a cryptic phone number, an epicene serial killer, a corrupt mayor) into a Borgesian web of forking paths and gleeful MacGuffins, ultimately deriving its primary tension not from the possibility or garishness of corporeal harm—though there's plenty of that both off-screen and on—but from a lust for inductive discovery that haphazardly teeters on the precipice of genre cliché.' Slant Magazine
Film Details
- Director: Hong-Jin na
- Producer: su-Jin Kim
- Script: Shinho Lee, Won-Chan Hong, Hong-Kin na
- Cinematographer: Sung-je Lee
- Cast: Yoo-Jeong Kim, Yun-Seok Kim, Jung-Woo Ha, Yeong-Hie Seo
- Editor: Sun-Min Kim
- Music: Yong-Rock Choi, Jun-Seok Kim
- Costume Designer: Kyung-Hwa Chae
- Print Source: National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra
- Rights: Madman Entertanment
- Screening Format: 35mm
- Year: 2008
- Runtime: 125 minutes
- Country: South Korea
- Languages: Korean, (with English subtitles)
- Sound: Dolby Digital
- Colour: Colour