2008 South Korean film
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (Korean:Β μ’μ λ, λμ λ, μ΄μν λ) is a 2008 South Korean Western action film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Kim Jee-woon, and starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, and Jung Woo-sung. The film is an homage to the 1966 Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and is set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the late 1930s.
The film marks the second collaboration between actor Lee and director Kim, who had previously collaborated on the action drama A Bittersweet Life (2005) and would later do so again in Kim's I Saw the Devil (2010).
The Good, the Bad, the Weird premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and had a limited release in the U.S. on 23 April 2010. It received positive reviews with critics praising the action, the cinematography and the direction.
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