Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
“Revenge was never this sweet.”
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Genres
Action, Drama, Thriller
Studio
CJ Entertainment
Language
ko
Status
Released
How Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance performed
Budget
$4.0M
Worldwide Gross
$2.0M
Gross Profit
−$2.0M
Return
0.5× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$260K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Dong-jin
Song Kang-ho
Dong-jin
Ryu
Shin Ha-kyun
Ryu
Yeong-mi
Bae Doona
Yeong-mi
Sister
Im Ji-eun
Sister
Yu-Sun
Han Bo-bae
Yu-Sun
Detective Choi
Lee Dae-yeon
Detective Choi
Engineer Peng
Ki Joo-bong
Engineer Peng
CEO
Kim Se-dong
CEO
Boss
Lee Yoon-mi
Boss
Person with Cerebral Palsy
Ryoo Seung-bum
Person with Cerebral Palsy
Detective Ji
Ji Dae-han
Detective Ji
Detective Heo
Heo Jong-su
Detective Heo
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