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Joint Security Area

2000 · Movie · 110 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer88%as of 2025-05-23
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.2/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic58/100as of 2024-03-02

What it is

Joint Security Area is a 2000 South Korean mystery thriller film directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook and based on the novel DMZ by Park Sang-yeon. It is Park Chan-wook's third film as director, and is frequently regarded as his first film with creative control; as he largely disowned his first two films, The Moon Is...

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Genres
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Original language
Korean

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