J.S.A. : Joint Security Area

(Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok)

by Park Chan-wook

South Korea

Director: Park Chan-wook

Script: Jeong Seong-san, Kim Hyeon-seok, Lee Mu-yeong, Park Chan-wook, Park Sang-yeon

Cinematographer: Kim Sung-bok

Editor: Kim Sang-beom

Sound: Kim Seok-weon, Kim Won-yon

Music: Bang Jun-seok, Jo Yeong-wook

Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Lee Young-aeh, Song Kang-ho, Kim Tae-woo, Shin Ha-kyun

Production: Myung Films Production

Year: 2000

35 mm, Colour, 110 min, 
OV Korean with French Subtitles.

Unreleased

With kind support of Paris' Korean Cultural Center and Myung Films

A North Korean soldier’s corpse with seven bullets is found on the ‘no return bridge’ at Panmujon frontier post, in the common security zone between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea accuses South Korea to have instigated a terrorist attack whereas South Korea maintains it is a conspiracy from North Korea. The two sides accept the mediation of a commission placed under the Swiss and Swedish patronage of the Neutral Countries organization. Captain Sophie E. Jean, a Swiss of Korean extraction, is in charge of the investigation. She immediately faces tremendous difficulties as the two sides are reluctant to cooperate.