A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
- Awards
- 25 wins & 30 nominations
Jo Min-soo
- Mi-Son
- (as Min-soo Jo)
Lee Jung-Jin
- Gang-Do
- (as Jeong-jin Lee)
Woo Ki-hong
- Hoon-chul
- (as Ki-Hong Woo)
Cho Jae-ryong
- Tae-seung
- (as Jae-ryong Cho)
Heo Joon-seok
- Suicidal Man
- (as Jun-seok Heo)
Kwon Yul
- Machinist with the Guitar
- (as Se-in Kwon)
Jin Yong-wook
- Shop Owner in Wheelchair
- (as Jin Yong-Ok)
Yu Ha-bok
- Container man
- (as Ha-bok Yu)
Kim Jae-rok
- Monk
- (as Jae-rok Kim)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaAccording to director Kim Ki-duk this film was prepared in 10 days, shot in 20 days on location and post-produced in 30 days.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Venice Film Festival 2012 (2012)
Featured review
Pieta is the story of revenge in a most brutal way possible by giving one's own life, a story of mother's love for his son. Story tells us the extreme measures taken by a mother to take the revenge from a non-human brutal loan shark.
Jung-Jin Lee is living a lonely life whose sole purpose is to recover the loan from other people by making them cripple and claiming their insurance money. In doing so he has become so cold inside that he feels nothing and know no pain. Brutality is the everyday life matter.
Enters a woman stirring everything by claiming that she is his mother. she make him feel love, make him angry and make him feel pain just to take the revenge of her son. And when Jung-Jin starts to feel human again, she inflicted the deep scar into his soul by giving her own life.
Movie is full of disturbing content and makes for a haunting viewing. I am a fan of south Korean cinema and this movie takes the love affair to another level.
8/10
Jung-Jin Lee is living a lonely life whose sole purpose is to recover the loan from other people by making them cripple and claiming their insurance money. In doing so he has become so cold inside that he feels nothing and know no pain. Brutality is the everyday life matter.
Enters a woman stirring everything by claiming that she is his mother. she make him feel love, make him angry and make him feel pain just to take the revenge of her son. And when Jung-Jin starts to feel human again, she inflicted the deep scar into his soul by giving her own life.
Movie is full of disturbing content and makes for a haunting viewing. I am a fan of south Korean cinema and this movie takes the love affair to another level.
8/10
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Box office
- Budget
- €103,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $22,080
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,222
- May 19, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $6,616,296
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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