Sal-in-eui-choo-eok

1986, Gyunggi province. The body of a young woman, who was raped and murdered, is found. A few months later, other similar rapes and murders occur. Such horrible crimes are totally foreign to the village and the fear grows that a serial killer is on the loose. A police task force is set up to handle the emergency. A local detective, Park Doo-Man, is assisted by Seo Tae-Yoon, a detective from Seoul. To the desperation of the police force, it becomes increasingly difficult to find the murderer.

"Sal-in-eui-choo-eok began in my mind with a single image. "On a sunshine filled afternoon, a gruesomely murdered naked body of a woman is discovered in a formerly quiet and peaceful town." Ironically, I found that the actualities of a murder case don't conform to the conventions of the crime genre. Only something like Silence of the Lambs could have produced an intellectual thriller pitting the detective against the criminal. Reality is nothing like this. I wanted to show reality - the incredibly comic juxtaposed and combined with the horrifying" (Bong Joon-Ho).