Pieta

2012
18
1h 43m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

16K

YOUR RATING

A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.

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A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

16K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 25 wins & 30 nominations total

Gang-Do
(as Jeong-jin Lee)

Woo Ki-hong

Hoon-chul
(as Ki-Hong Woo)

Eunjin Kang

Myeong-ja (Hoon-Chul's wife)

Cho Jae-ryong

Tae-seung
(as Jae-ryong Cho)

Myeong-ja Lee

Mother of Suicidal Man

Heo Joon-seok

Suicidal Man
(as Jun-seok Heo)

Kwon Yul

Machinist with the Guitar
(as Se-in Kwon)

Mun-su Song

Borrower Who Climbs the Steps

Beom-jun Kim

Myeongdong Man

Son Jong-hak

Boss

Jin Yong-wook

Shop Owner in Wheelchair

Yu Ha-bok

Container man
(as Ha-bok Yu)

Kim Jae-rok

Monk

Won-jang Lee

Sang-gu

Director
- Kim Ki-duk
Writer
- Kim Ki-duk
All cast & crew
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Storyline

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Trivia
According to director Kim Ki-duk this film was prepared in 10 days, shot in 20 days on location and post-produced in 30 days.

Quotes
Gang-Do: What is money?
Mi-Son: Money? The beginning and end of all things. Love, honor, violence, fury, hatred, jealousy, revenge, death.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Venice Film Festival 2012 (2012)

Soundtracks
Happy Birthday to You
(uncredited)
By Patty S. Hill and Mildred J. Hill
Performed by Jo Min-soo

User reviews48

Featured review

7/10

Daring. Bold. Horrifying. Human

Pieta is the story of revenge in a most brutal way possible by giving one's own life, a story of mother's love for his son. Story tells us the extreme measures taken by a mother to take the revenge from a non-human brutal loan shark.

Jung-Jin Lee is living a lonely life whose sole purpose is to recover the loan from other people by making them cripple and claiming their insurance money. In doing so he has become so cold inside that he feels nothing and know no pain. Brutality is the everyday life matter.

Enters a woman stirring everything by claiming that she is his mother. she make him feel love, make him angry and make him feel pain just to take the revenge of her son. And when Jung-Jin starts to feel human again, she inflicted the deep scar into his soul by giving her own life.

Movie is full of disturbing content and makes for a haunting viewing. I am a fan of south Korean cinema and this movie takes the love affair to another level.

8/10