The Good, the Bad, the Weird

The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Theatrical release poster
Hangul
좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈
Revised RomanizationJoeun nom, nappeun nom, isanghan nom
McCune–ReischauerChoŭn nom, nappŭn nom, isanghan nom
Directed byKim Jee-woon
Written byKim Jee-woon
Kim Min-suk
Produced byKim Jee-woon
Choi Jae-won
StarringSong Kang-ho
Lee Byung-hun
Jung Woo-sung
CinematographyLee Mo-gae
Edited byNam Na-yeong
Music byDalpalan
Jang Young-gyu
Production
companies
Barunson Co. Ltd.
Grimm Pictures
Distributed byCJ Entertainment
Release dates
  • 24 May 2008 (2008-05-24) (Cannes)
  • 17 July 2008 (2008-07-17) (South Korea)
Running time
139 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguagesKorean
Mandarin
Japanese
BudgetUS$10 million
Box officeUS$44.3 million

The Good, the Bad, the Weird (Korean: 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈) is a 2008 South Korean Western action film directed by Kim Jee-woon and starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, and Jung Woo-sung. The film is inspired by the 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

The film 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 cinematography and the direction. The film marks the second collaboration between actor Lee Byung-hun and director Kim Jee-woon, 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).