Revenge movies are one of the favorite genres of both movie-makers and their audiences. This genre is as old as storytelling itself, and in the recent era, one industry has mastered this genre. It's the Korean Movie Industry! No one can serve revenge films as interestingly as the Korean filmmakers. The stories here not just revolve around the good or bad but lurks around the grey areas that we often miss in most revenge stories.
Here are our Top 10 best Korean Revenge Movies of recent years that all movie-bingers should watch.
1. Tomb Of The River (2021)
‘Tomb Of The River’ is the story of Gil-Suk who is the most trusted aide of the leader of the criminal gang - Oh. Gil Suk is not only loyal to his boss but even seeks revenge on his behalf to another gangster Min-Seok who tries to seize the resort that Oh wanted to build.
2. Hard Hit (2021)
This is a remake of the 2015 Spanish thriller, Retribution. Here, Seong-Gyu, a bank manager who was traveling to his work with his children when he received a mysterious call. The caller informed Seong-gyu that there is a bomb under his seat and demanded a bizarre amount from him. Who was the caller, and why did he set such a trap for Seong-gyu?
3. The Call (2020)
The Call is a nail-biting movie about two girls of the same age who can communicate through a phone even though they are from different timelines. Oh Young Sook, the girl from the past, calls Kim Seo Yeon to save her from her abusive stepmother in return for saving Kim Seo Yeon's father. This one action set Oh Young Sook on a revenge-killing spree.
4. Night In Paradise (2020)
Night in Paradise is an action-filled revenge story of two gangs due to a mobster named Tae-goo. When a rival gang offered Tae-goo to switch to his team, he refused, which resulted in the murder of his sister and niece. In revenge, he killed the boss of the rival team and fled the place to Russia, where he met Jae-Yeon, a terminally ill cancer patient. The rival team was searching for Tae Goo and used Tae Goo’s formal boss as bait. Fearing for his own life, Tae-goo's boss hands him over to the rival gang. Is this the end for Tae-goo?
5. Bring Me Home (2019)
Bring Me Home is the story of a mother who lost his only son six years ago. Her search for her son leads her to a fishing village, but a corrupt policeman who has links with the unscrupulous practices of the fishing village stops her from reaching her son. However, a desperate mother seeks desperate action to save her only hope for life.
6. No Mercy (2019)
No Mercy is a revenge story of an elder sister from all those bullies due to whom her younger sister disappeared. In-ae is a female bodyguard who went to prison for stabbing an eye out of a politician who raped her younger sister. However, her younger sister Eun-he continues to be bullied and raped by several people in the school. One day some gangsters abducted her, which led to In-ae finding the whole truth about her sister's life when she was not there.
7. Burning (2018)
Burning is a psychological thriller where Lee Jong-Su, a deliveryman, kills the person he thought had killed his childhood neighbor and crush. Lee Jong-su met Shin Hae-mi, his childhood neighbor and classmate, one day while delivering goods. Shin Hae-mi requested him to feed her cat 'Boil' as she was going to Africa. In Africa, Hae-mi met Ben, and they got into a relationship. She made Jong-su meet Ben, and the three hang around at Jong-Su's farm. One day Hae-mi mysteriously disappeared, and Jong-su found her cat and a watch that he gave to Hae-mi in Ben's apartment. Thinking he killed Hae-mi, he called Ben and stabbed him to death.
8. Revenger (2018)
The Revenger is the story of Yool, a former detective who is on a revenge mission to avenge all those who killed his family. Yool invades a secluded island as a death-row convict to seek revenge from Carlos Yun, where Yun keeps other heinous death-row convicts under his command.
9. The Witch: Part 1 The Subversion
This is a story of a young girl, Ja-Yoon, who is created with superpowers by Dr Baek. After escaping from the lab, Ja-Yoon suffered from amnesia and joins a national singing contest where she meets a man called Nobleman who recognises her as the one Dr. Baek is searching for. She got recaptured and taken back to the laboratory. But, in the end, everyone got to know that Ja-Yoon never suffered from any amnesia and was trying to find Dr. Baek to get the cure for her suffering.
10. The Villainess (2017)
The story revolves around Yeon-soo, a trained assassin who got a new life after the death of her mentor. Even though she started her new life in South Korea, her past came back with deep secrets. With the revelations of past secrets, Yeon-soo went on to seek revenge.
