The Good, the Bad, the Weird
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| Hangul | 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈 |
| Revised Romanization | Joeun nom, nappeun nom, isanghan nom |
| McCune–Reischauer | Choŭn nom, nappŭn nom, isanghan nom |
| Directed by | Kim Jee-woon |
| Written by | Kim Jee-woon Kim Min-suk |
| Produced by | Kim Jee-woon Choi Jae-won |
| Starring | Song Kang-ho Lee Byung-hun Jung Woo-sung |
| Cinematography | Lee Mo-gae |
| Edited by | Nam Na-yeong |
| Music by | Dalpalan Jang Young-gyu |
Production companies | Barunson Co. Ltd. Grimm Pictures |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
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Running time | 139 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Languages | Korean Mandarin Japanese |
| Budget | US$10 million |
| Box office | US$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).