Memories of Murder (2003)
살인의 추억
Crime, Drama, Thriller • 2h 12m
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Cast: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Roi-ha, Song Jae-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Go Seo-hee, Ryu Tae-ho, Park No-shik, Park Hae-il, Jeon Mi-seon, Seo Young-hwa, Woo Go-na, Choi Jong-ryul, Yoo Seung-mok, Shin Hyeon-jong, Jung In-sun, Lee Jae-eung, Kwon Byung-gil, Park Hyun-young, Yoon Ga-hyun, Kwon Hyeok-pung, Jo Deok-jae, Jo Moon-ee, Baek Bong-ki, Kim Joo-ryoung, Yeom Hye-ran, Park Jin-woo, Lee Dong-yong, Oh Yong, Son Jin-hwan, Park Tae-kyeong, Son Kang-gook, Son Jin-ho, Shin Un-seop, Ha-kyeong Kim, Lee Da-il, Shim Sung-bo, Lee Kang-san, Lee In-hui, Seong Jeong-seon, Yoo In-soo
Curzon/Artificial Eye UK 4K Blu-ray
Best English-friendly & audio release · updated 11 months ago
UHD tiers
Overview
During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
France The Jokers 4K Blu-ray has the least DNR (UK Artificial Eye might be similar? Both better than Universal 4K Blu-ray)
Criterion even though doesn’t have 4K, it has the B&W version and a lot of extras.
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
France 4K Blu-ray, DNR-affected, low-res original 2K DI upscaled but strong compression and Atmos
Director: Béla Tarr
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Director: Béla Tarr
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Artificial Eye UK Blu-ray? Supposed to have better translation than Criterion.
Curzon 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
Director: Michael Haneke
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
2025 Curzon UK Blu-ray or 2013 TF1 FR Blu-ray (caps)
Curzon has a slightly better encode and preserves all the noise of the digital source, but ends up obscuring actual detail in some shots. Both are quite good, only caveat being that the TF1 disc is slightly cropped and has a black bar on top.
2025 Curzon UK Blu-ray
2008 Artificial Eye UK and 2025 Umbrella AU discs have incorrect pitch. TF1 FR disc is missing 7 minutes of audio in the left channel. See spectrograms.
Director: Walter Salles
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Original matrixed Dolby Stereo: Curzon 4K Blu-ray
Surround mix: Vision Film Polish PAL DVD (2000)
The surround mix is fully discrete, not a mere decode or upmix of the Dolby Stereo LCRS track. This mix has never appeared on any other releases.
Director: Jean Vigo
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Directors: Jean Vigo & Boris Kaufman
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
More Crime on Blu-ray
Directors: Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
4K encode is low-pass filtered and noticeably so, which was unfortunately par for the course with Criterion 4Ks until sometime in 2024. Still better than the Criterion and Lionsgate Blu-Ray discs for the Dolby Vision grading alone.
Director: David Lynch
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray in December
Criterion 4K Blu-ray or Germany Plaion 4K Blu-ray - subtle difference in encoding to the Criterion in encoding, trading blows in different shots, with Plaion taking a slight edge with less highlight blocking
1993 MGM LaserDisc/2000 Region 1 MGM DVD
Criterion's 2.0 sounds muffled due to noise reduction and EQ.
Plaion's 2.0 lacks bass and has a very bright EQ, more resembling the 5.1 remix. Plaion’s 2.0 doesn't have any filtering unlike the Criterion, see https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23831289&postcount=110
Director: John Woo
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray > US Shout! Factory, better encoding by Engine House and redone opening credits, errors present in Shout! Factory fixed
Arrow 4K Blu-ray, mono is from an alternate higher fidelity source than Shout! Factory.
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Signal One UK Blu-Ray
Gorgeously filmic 2K remaster supervised and approved by Jerry Schatzberg from Fox and flawlessly encoded by FiM.
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Sources: capelight.de (opens in a new tab)
Arrow UK 4K Blu-ray > Paramount US, same black crush as the US disc but encoded by FiM and very good new supplements
Paramount US 4K Blu-ray has FEL Dolby Vision
Arrow UK 4K Blu-ray has MEL Dolby Vision
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Warner Archive Blu-ray, 4k scan
Director: Martin Scorsese
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Sources: blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot seen on the previous Columbia Classics release and has better encoding
Original mono mix: 1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1991 Columbia LaserDisc
The 4K Blu-ray mono is only minimally worse (see blah-ray).
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is slightly better than French 4K Blu-ray see caps
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