The Good, the Bad, the Weird

The Good, the Bad, the Weird (Korean: 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈) is a 2008 South Korean Western action film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Kim Jee-woon, and starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, and Jung Woo-sung. The film is an homage to the 1966 Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and is set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the late 1930s. The film marks the second collaboration between actor Lee and director Kim, who had previously collaborated on the action drama A Bittersweet Life (2005) and would later do so again in Kim's I Saw the Devil (2010). The Good, the Bad, the Weird premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and had a limited release in the U.S. on 23 April 2010. It received positive reviews with critics praising the action, the cinem