Voice of a Murderer
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| Hangul | |
| Revised Romanization | Geunom moksori |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kŭnom moksori |
| Directed by | Park Jin-pyo |
| Produced by | Lee Yu-jin |
| Written by | Park Jin-pyo |
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Sol Kyung-gu Kim Nam-joo |
| Music by | Lee Byung-woo |
| Cinematography | Kim Woo-hyung |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
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122 minutes |
| Language | Korean |
| Budget | US$4.5 million |
| Box office | US$18,160,598 |
Voice of a Murderer (Hangul: 그놈 목소리; RR: Geunom moksori; lit. "His Voice") is a 2007 South Korean crime thriller-drama film written and directed by Park Jin-pyo, starring Sol Kyung-gu and Kim Nam-joo. It was the third top-grossing domestic film of 2007, with 3,143,247 tickets sold. The story is a fictionalized account of a real-life kidnapping case in 1991.
The only son of famous news anchor Han Kyung-bae disappears without a trace. The kidnapper calls the nine-year-old boy's mother, Oh Ji-sun, demanding 100,000 dollars as ransom. The police assign a veteran cop and his special task force on the case. However, the kidnapper catches wind of the police involvement and threatens to cut out the boy's heart and mail it to them. Han desperately tries to save his boy and obey the criminal's demands. When things take a turn for the worse Kyung-bae starts to take matters into his own hands.
The film is based on the real-life abduction of nine-year-old Lee Hyung-ho on January 29, 1991. Despite 87 ransom calls from the kidnapper to the child's parents asking for ₩70 million (US$75,000), Lee's dead body was found in a ditch near his home in Apgujeong-dong 44 days after he went missing; he had been killed two days after being kidnapped. The killer was never caught, and the 15-year statute of limitations on the case expired in 2006.
2007 Korean Film Awards
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