Memories of Murder - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Memories of Murder or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Memories of Murder

[jesse]

Cosmic justice : Detective Cho's leg need to be amputated because he tortures innocent people by kicking them.

[jeffrey]

Beginning in June 2000, it took Bong Joon Ho a year to write the script for Memories of Murder (2003), yet he has stated that: "For the first six months, I didn't write a line of the script. I just did research."

[ethel]

In 2019 the serial killer this movie is based on was identified. He has been serving a life sentence in prison since 1994 for the rape and murder of his sister-in-law.

[charlie]

One deleted scene shows detective Cho walking in a red light district, and then getting a massage from a girl as he asks her about possible leads regarding the murders. The scene was shot in a real red light district, and they had to ask the local pimp for permission to film.

[victoria]

There is also a South Korean movie named: Memoir of murder.

[violet]

Director Quentin Tarantino named it, along with Bong's The Host (2006), as one of his Top 20 favorite movies since 1992.

[nicholas]

Actor Kang-ho Song and director Bong Joon Ho's first collaboration.

[jessie]

Despite the film being based on a series of real murders in the Korean provincial town of Hwaeseong during the 1980s, Bong Joon Ho also drew a lot inspiration from a play called 'Come See Me' which dramatized the incidents, to the extent that he stated in an interview: "If it weren't for KIM Gwang-rim's play [Come See Me], I would have had a lot of problems establishing the structure." While he also gained the idea for the depiction of the era from the graphic novel 'From Hell' by the writer Alan Moore, which was given to Bong by the journalist Tony Rayns as a gift.

[leo]

Director Bong Joon-ho was confident that the killer would watch the film. In the final shot of the film, Park Doo-man looks directly into the camera. Park is looking at the audience, and he is face to face with killer (if he is watching the scene).

[charlie]

On 18 Sep 2019, Korean Police reported that they identified a suspect who is believed to be the perpetrator of the series of murders which inspired this movie. The suspect's DNA was matched with two sets of DNA lifted from two murder scenes. It was reported that the suspect's DNA was obtained through criminal database and the suspect was already serving a life sentence for a crime that was previously thought unrelated. However, since the statute of limitations on murder was 15 years in Korea at the time of murders and the last murder was committed in 1991, the perpetrator is very unlikely to be brought to justice for the crimes that were newly linked to him.

[fred]

The real murderer, Lee Chun-jae, was discovered through DNA evidence in September 2019. He confessed to 9 of the 10 murders, however, can't be convicted due to a 15-year statute of limitations in South Korea. He is serving a life sentence for the 1994 murder of his sister-in-law.

[ray]

Screenwriter Eun-hee Kim (Sign, Phantom) is attached to a television adaptation with the working title Signal, to be aired on SBS in 2015.

[lena]

When Kwang-Ho was investigated in the basement of the police station, the two police officers and a suspect watched a TV program while eating their meals. The title of this program is "Soo Sa Ban Jang" which can be loosely interpreted as "Investigation Squad" in English. It was a famous TV detective drama which was aired for almost twenty years. The opening music was also very popular during that time.