Good, The Bad, The Weird, The

About the movie

Set in the Manchurian desert were lawless rules and many different ethnic groups clash, three Korean men fatefully meet each other on a train; The Good, Do-won (JUNG Woo-sung) a bounty hunter, The Bad, Chang-yi (LEE Byung-hun) a bandit leader and The Weird, Tae-goo (SONG Kang-ho) a train robber. The three strangers engage in a chase across Manchuria to take possession of a map Tae-goo discovers while robbing the train. Also on the hunt for the mysterious map, are the Japanese army and Asian bandits. In this unpredictable, escalating battle for the map, who will stand in the end as the winner? Never be sure who's good, bad or weird.
With mounted bandits, steam engine trains and opium filled brothels The Good, the Bad, the Weird is a western that focuses on the anarchic and multinational culture ridden Manchuria in the 1930s. It’s a ‘Oriental Western’ that will take moviegoers to an unfamiliar, never-seen-before type of film. Directed by critically acclaimed director Ji-woon Kim (A Tale of Two Sisters, A Bittersweet Life) and featuring Lee Byeong-heon (A Bittersweet Life), Song Kang-ho (The Host") and Jeong Woo-seong (Musa). Won the award for best supporting actor at the Asian Film Awards 2009.

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