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Samaritan Girl (2004)
Starring: Park Jun-gyu, Lee Eol Director: Kim Ki-duk
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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  • Actors: Park Jun-gyu, Lee Eol, Gwak Ji-min, Seo Min-jung, Gweon Hyeon-min
  • Directors: Kim Ki-duk
  • Format: AC-3, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: Korean
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Studio: Tartan Video
  • DVD Release Date: Jan 17 2006
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B0007Z9RCA
  • Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #25,989 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Two teenage girls, Yeo-jin (Ji-min Kwak) and Jae-young (Min-jeong Seo), desperate to fulfill their dreams of traveling to Europe, set out to raise the money by starting a prostitution business. Yeo-jin handles the business side, while Jae-young satisfies the clients. When things go terribly wrong during a police raid, Jae-young is killed. Yeo-jin, wrought with guilt over her loss, begins sleeping with their clients in a misguided act of penance. Things go from bad to worse when Yeo-jin’s father, a police detective, stumbles upon her secret and launches a vengeful crusade. At a difficult crossroads, father and daughter must embark on a desperate journey in the hope of attaining absolution and redemption.

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Tartan new releases
Subtitles: English and Spanish
Anamorphic widescreen
Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound
DTS surround sound 5.1

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Experiencing Kim Ki-Duk, Aug 30 2005
By Andy (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
MOVIE: 5/5
I won't bother saying what the movie is about as you can read the synopsis provided by the editor above.

Kim Ki-Duk as a film maker has a real talent in effortlessly establishing his characters and relationships which are vital in moving his movies forward. The development he creates in a single scene without dialogue, other directors fail to do within entire movies. In essence, he is efficient because he understands human behaviour and the power of subtlety. Others may find the lack of onscreen activity boring but I can't help feel fascinated and completely drawn in with each passing minute of this movie.

This is not a movie for everyone and it is by no means a happy one. It is at times sad, depressing, and revolting. But it is hard not to come away with some emotional investment with either of the main characters. At the core, I believe the same thing is driving both main characters (the father and daughter), that being nobility, but here we see how being noble leads to suffering. I have only seen one other Kim Ki-Duk movie (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring) but both have left an everlasting impression.

If you are a fan of Kim Ki-Duk or Korean cinema, I highly recommend this.

DVD: 2/5
There is no reason why this movie should look the way it does given how recent it is. It's not the worse, but certainly far from perfect. The video transfer is inconsistent and it looks like it came from a less than perfect print. At the start, I couldn't help but feel a little distracted by all the nicks in the print. I eventually got use to it and the transfer does improve in the middle section of the movie. I found the transfer to be quite soft throughout. And towards the end, there is a barely noticable vertical band in many scenes. Like I said, its barely noticeable but distracting somewhat.
The Dolby Digital/DTS mixes are pretty much identical. It is a front heavy mix which is appropriate for the subject matter. The surrounds do chime in but are reserved primarily for ambient sounds. There are no worthwhile extras which is unfortunate.

OVERALL:4/5
Despite a less than stellar DVD, I'm still giving this release a 4/5 because the movie more than makes up for its technical shortcoming's as a DVD.

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