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#4,954 All-time worldwide
#120 2003 releases

Movie profile

Memories of Murder

2003 · 131 min · Cj Entertainment

Crime Drama Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $26.0M
Budget $2.8M
Gross minus budget $23.2M
ROI 9.29x

Domestic gross

$13.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$13.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Memories of Murder ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #4,954 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2003 releases #120 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2003. Studio / company #10 Cj Entertainment of 17 titles Position inside the mapped Cj Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #784 Crime of 1,921 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Memories of Murder (2003) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Memories of Murder (2003) earned a reported $26.0M worldwide against a reported $2.8M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $23.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 9.29x. In this database it currently ranks #4,954 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #120 among 2003 releases.

Worldwide gross
$26,000,000
Budget
$2,800,000
Gross minus budget
$23,200,000
ROI
9.29x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 25, 2003
Production
CJ Entertainment, Muhan Investment, Sidus
Countries
KR

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2003, Memories of Murder is positioned in this dataset as a Crime, Drama, Thriller title from CJ Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $26.0M, reported production budget is $2.8M, gross-minus-budget is $23.2M, ROI is 9.29x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,954 all-time in the current chart set and #120 among 2003 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.