- Having wanted to make a film on a middle aged woman's revenge, the director originally considered casting Du-shim Ko for the part of Geum-ja. However, he had to abandon his plan for a couple of reasons. He found that Ms. Ko was rather old for the character and was afraid that the movie would look quite similar to John Cassavetes' Gloria (1980).
- The snow at the ending is not real. They brought two trucks of salt, scattered it all over the street and finally adjusted the scene using computer graphics.
- The bakery that Geumja works in is called "Naruse", which is the name of the Japanese director Mikio Naruse.
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- SPOILER: The two hired assassins are played by Ha-kyun Shin and Kang-ho Song. They played the two main protagonists of Boksuneun naui geot (2002), the first film in the vengeance trilogy, in which Song's character reaps vengeance on Shin's.
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