Tell Me Something
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- Movie: Tell Me Something
- Revised romanization:
- Hangul: 텔미썸딩 / 텔 미 썸딩
- Director: Chang Yoon-Hyun
- Writer: Chang Yoon-Hyun, In Eun-A, Eun-Jeong Kim, Su-chang Kong, Hye-Weon Shim
- Producer:
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: November 13, 1999
- Runtime: 118 min
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Plot
A series of black garbage bags filled with dismembered body parts begin to show up around the city: in an elevator, on a highway, at the edge of a basketball court, and rendering the victims nearly impossible to identify. The killer’s motive is a complete mystery. Leading the investigation is Detective Cho (Han Suk-gyu), a burnt-out cop trying to redeem himself with this case. Setting up a special squad dedicated to these gruesome murders, Cho and his partner, the veteran Detective Oh (Chang Hang-sun) map out the order of the murders, interchanging the parts like pieces in a grotesque puzzle. Mystified by the surgical precision of the dismemberments and finding a medical antiseptic called “Hexamedrin” spread all over the bodies, the detectives start suspecting a doctor or a biologist as the killer.
A break opens up when Cho is led to a beautiful and enigmatic young artist, Su-yeon Chae (Shim Eun-ha), whom all the victims have had relations with. But besides this revealing breakthrough, Cho is far from solving the case. Still not having found a motive, Cho is grasping for many clues. As the murders continue, Cho is drawn closer to Su-yeon and begins unraveling her tortured past, leading to new questions and suspects. Cho and Oh subsequently discover that her father, a famous painter, mysteriously disappeared years before. Cho decides to investigate her late college classmate and current colleague Kiyeon, and her friend, Sung-min (Yum Jung-ah).
While Cho questions Ki-yeon, the fragile Su-yeon is attacked but manages to escape. After being released from police custody, Ki-yeon disappears, and the next morning Detective Cho is notified of the fourth murder. Under the rainy urban landscape of Korea’s capital, another garbage bag is discovered on a highway. This time, the corpse is a head-less Ki-yeon…
Cast
Starring
- Han Suk-Kyu - Detective Cho
- Shim Eun-Ha - Chae Su-Yeon
Supporting Cast
- Jang Hang-Seon - Detective Oh
- Yum Jung-Ah - Seungmin Oh
- Seok-Hwan An
- Kim Jeong-Hak
- Park Cheol-Ho
- Yu Jun-Sang - Kim Ki-yeon
- Hwan-Jun Lee
- Lee Young-Eun
- Kwon Tae-Won - Yong-hun Chae
- Jo Seung-Yeon
- Lee Dae-Ro
- Ha Deok-Bu
- Lee Hyeon-Suk
- Maeng Bong-Hal
- Byun Shin-Ho
- Kim Yang-Woo - fence
Film Festivals
- 2011 (10th) Asian Film Festival of Dallas - July 14-21, 2011
