Bong Joon-Ho's Memories of Murder will surface in December

Posted on November 30, 2009 at 11:41 by Ulrik.Tweet this

Looks like the Korean distributors are sloooowly waking up from their sleep when it comes to release domestic films on Blu-ray Disc on their own instead of letting the International licensees spread the big Korean wave in high definition. While many International films are already available in Korea on Blu-ray Disc, only four domestic films (The Host, Taegukgi (Brotherhood), Welcome to Dongmakgol and The Good, The Bad, The Weird) have been released in Korea for the format.
Now CJ Entertainment announced to heighten this sad number a bit by releasing Bong Joon-Ho's 2003 thriller Memories of Murder on December 10, 2009. According to MadMad.co.kr, the Blu-ray Disc release will include English subtitles, just as expected from a Korean distributor. Package wise, the special edition BD looks a lot like CJ Entertainments technically pretty much perfect The Good, The Bad, The Weird release that only suffers from not including the longer Korean cut.
Let's hope CJ will keep up the good work and stays away from those nasty region codes...
[Thanks to Mr. 8537935 for the heads up!]