msgeumja

From Ian Jane's review of Lady Vengeance.

What's funny about that is that if Mr. Jane actually did some research, he'd realize that the ACTUAL title of the film is THE KIND HEARTED MS. GEUM-JA, which is the title director Park Chan-Wook gave the film. His sales agency, the company that sellls the movie internationally, renamed the film Sympathy for Lady Vengeance for international purposes. They did to match up with Park's other film Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, which was originally called VENGEANCE IS MINE, and therefore was not Park's title of choice either.

Saying that the REAL name of the film is "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" is like saying the REAL name of SPL is the recent Weinstein namechange "Killzone."

So, if you want to be true to the director's vision, call the film "Kind Hearted Ms. Geum-Ja." You're not honoring Park Chan-Wook by reverting the title back to the inclusion of "Sympathy for...".

alfonsosoriano

Ok.

spinning plates

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Josh Z

Is "THE KIND HEARTED MS. GEUM-JA" the title as it played in Korea, or just the director's original choice that never got used?

Dan1boy

how about I just call it "oy vey" ?

eXcentris

It is not an approved english title, it's simply the literal english translation of the Korean title "Chinjeolhan Geumjassi ". The international title is "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance". Referring to the film's title as ""THE KIND HEARTED MS. GEUM-JA" in a review would be meaningless. As a reviewer, I might use it in a sentence like:

Park Chan-wook's "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" ("Chinjeolhan Geumjassi " which translates to "The Kind-Hearted Ms. Geum-ja") is the Korean director's...

But then again different reviewers would handle this differently.