JSA-JOINT SECURITY AREA (GONG DONG KYUNG BI KU YUK) Asian New Classics

In JOINT SECURITY AREA, a bloody shootout at the Korean DMZ leads to a tortuous investigation of murder, friendship and the disarming beauty of cigarettes and late-night conversations.

Major Sophie Jang heads a bilateral investigative team · responsible for uncovering the truth of one dreadful evening-which has left two dead bodies, one man badly injured and another man so traumatized he attempts suicide when asked to take a lie detector test. Jang soon finds that no one recalls anything, at least beyond the facts of the official record. Chan Wook Park’s film charts Jong’s haunting journey, in which the history of that evening is as elusive as the truth of her own past.

A recent hit at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival, this acclaimed film reigned as the highest grossing film of all-time in South Korea until FRIEND came to beat it this year.