Shiri [videorecording]
 Format: Video DVD
 Published: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2002], c1999.
 Language: Korean
 Summary:
A phantom sniper is methodically assassinating key figures in a South Korean intelligence investigation. Special agent Ryu and his partner Lee suspect North Korea's most lethal female operative, Hee, as being responsible. When a security breach prompts the theft of a high-tech liquid explosive, CTX, from the South Korean authorities, Ryu and Lee are certain there's a mole within their ranks.
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Item Description
  • Widescreen version.
  • 1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
  • ISBN: 0767870816
  • UPC: 043396067851
  • OCLC Number: 49530443
  • Publisher Number: 06785 Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Notes
  • Han Suckyu, Choi Minsik, Song Kangho, Kim Yunjin, Yoon Joosang, Park Yongwoo.
  • Director of photography, Kim Sungbok ; art director, Park Ilhyun ; editor, Park Gokji ; music ; Lee Dongjun ; production designer, Oh Sangman.
  • Asia-Pacific Film Festival: 1999, Best Editing (Park Gokji); Special Jury Award (Kang Jegyu)
  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999.
  • Special features: documentary "The making of Shiri"; music video "When I dream"; theatrical trailers; interactive menus; scene selection.
  • Title from container.
  • Korean, English or French dialogue with English, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles.
  • MPAA rating: R.
  • DVD, 5.1 Dolby digital, digitally mastered audio & anamorphic video.
  • Other Format: Also issued on DVD.
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Title Summary
A phantom sniper is methodically assassinating key figures in a South Korean intelligence investigation. Special agent Ryu and his partner Lee suspect North Korea's most lethal female operative, Hee, as being responsible. When a security breach prompts the theft of a high-tech liquid explosive, CTX, from the South Korean authorities, Ryu and Lee are certain there's a mole within their ranks.
Review

Billed as Full Metal Jacket meets Heat meets Nikita, Kang Je Gyu directs this wildly popular action-thriller about tensions between North and South Korea. The film opens with agents in North Korean spy school T19 engaged in an unbelievably difficult rigorous training regime. The school's fanatically committed leader, Park Mu Young (Choi Min Sik) singles out the beautiful and sinewy Lee Bang Hee (Kim Yun Jin), an ace student and a deadeye shot, for a top-secret mission. A couple of years later, South Korean intelligence agents are baffled by a spate of murders of scientists working on a top-secret defense project. Agents Yu Jong Won (Han Suk Kyu) and Lee Jang Gil (Song Kang Ho) suspect the North Korean Lee but cannot locate her. One day, Yu finally spots Lee Bang Hee icing an arms dealer with a sniper rifle. At the same time, North Korean spy Park Mu Young and his fellow commandos take out a military convoy and swipe a top-secret substance called CTX, an explosive that is completely undetectable. Park and Lee's plan slowly becomes horribly apparent: to blow up a North and South Korean friendship soccer game, launching a war that will bring South Korea under the North's hegemony. At the same time, South Korean intelligence is starting to suspect a mole in their midst and evidence seems to point to Yu's girlfriend. This film was screened at the 1999 Pusan Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

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