Joint Security Area

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Joint Security Area (Korean: 공동경비구역 JSA) is a 2000 South Korean mystery thriller film directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook and based on the novel DMZ by Park Sang-yeon. It is Park Chan-wook's third film as director, and is frequently regarded as his first film with creative control; as he largely disowned his first two films, The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream (1992) and Trio (1997), Park himself prefers the film to be regarded as his directorial debut. Starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Lee Young-ae, Kim Tae-woo, and Shin Ha-kyun, Joint Security Area is set in the eponymous Joint Security Area of the Korean Demilitarized Zone separating the countries of North Korea and South Korea and revolves around a fatal shooting incident involving soldiers from both sides, whi