Looks like the last few copies of CJ Entertainment’s Korean Blu-ray Disc releases of Bong Joon-Ho’s Memories of Murder und Kim Ji-Woon’s The Good, The Bad and the Weird went OOP. YesAsia (and other retailers) are now listing re-releases of both films that come in standard Blu-ray Disc amaray cases instead of those nice digipaks (see here and here) like the previous special editions. But at least the prices remain the same…

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Memories of Murder – CJ Entertainment

Specifications
Region: ABC
Video: AVC 1080p 23,976fps
Audio: Korean DTS HD MA 7.1
Subtitles: English, Korean
Screenshots

Memories of Murders @ Asian Blu-ray Guide

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Looks like the Korean distributors are sloooowly waking up from their sleep when it comes to release domestic films on Blu-ray Disc on their own instead of letting the International licensees spread the big Korean wave in high definition. While many International films are already available in Korea on Blu-ray Disc, only four domestic films (The Host, Taegukgi (Brotherhood), Welcome to Dongmakgol and The Good, The Bad, The Weird) have been released in Korea for the format. Now CJ Entertainment announced to heighten this sad number by releasing Bong Joon-Ho’s 2003 thriller Memories of Murder on December 10, 2009. According to MadMad.co.kr, the Blu-ray Disc release will include English subtitles, just as expected from a Korean distributor. Package wise, the special edition BD looks a lot like CJ Entertainments technically pretty much perfect The Good, The Bad, The Weird release that only suffers from not including the longer Korean cut. Let’s hope CJ will keep up the good work and stays away from those nasty region codes…[Thanks to
Preorder Memories of Murder Korea Blu-ray Disc from YesAsia.com
Mr. 8537935 for the heads up!]

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