Scrap Heaven

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Scrap Heaven

2005,

1h 56m,

Comedy/

Drama

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57%

7 Reviews

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84%

500+ Ratings

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57%

Tomatometer

7 Reviews

84%

Popcornmeter

500+ Ratings

After a violent incident on a bus, two men (Ryô Kase, Joe Odagiri) join forces to act out people's revenge fantasies.

Laura Kern

New York Times

Jul 18, 2007

2.5/5

In the writer and director Sang-il Lee’s Scrap Heaven, three strangers share a general dissatisfaction with life -- and a fateful ride aboard a hijacked bus.

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V.A. Musetto

New York Post

Jul 18, 2007

3/4

[Director] Lee also helmed Hula Girls, a clichd comedy that I hated (one star). With Scrap Heaven, he redeems himself.

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Aaron Hillis

Village Voice

Jul 17, 2007

[Director] Lee's visual jazziness and cast are compelling, but nothing can compensate for a deflated, toilet-humored script that negates its potential for sharp social satire with increasingly adolescent and superficial vilifying philosophies.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Oct 20, 2026

7/10

This is scrappy, nihilistic, and wildly adventurous stuff.

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Eric Monder

Film Journal International

Jul 20, 2007

Does not advance much beyond its expected generic elements.

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Maitland McDonagh

TV Guide

Jul 18, 2007

3/4

Sang-il Lee's anarchic drama is shot through with spasms of dark comedy, as the lives of three strangers intersect at the point of a gun.

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Lee Sang-il

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Ryô Kase

Shingo

Joe Odagiri

Tetsu

Chiaki Kuriyama

Saki Fujimura

Akira Emoto

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Lee Sang-il

Writer

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Synopsis

After a violent incident on a bus, two men (Ryô Kase, Joe Odagiri) join forces to act out people's revenge fantasies.

Director: Lee Sang-il
Screenwriter: Lee Sang-il
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (DVD): Mar 1, 2011
Runtime: 1h 56m

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