After some painstaking delays, we are finally getting a new movie from Bong Joon-ho, one of the masters of tonal balance and comedic tragedy. Following his universal acclaim for Parasite, it brought lots of Western audiences in touch with the wealth of amazing Asian cinema that has too often flown under the radar. One is Joon-ho's Memories of Murder, a stellar mix of tense police procedural and undercutting comedy. This is the director's best use of tonal mixing to create a true sense of foreboding inevitability, something that it achieves better than Parasite. Whilst Joon-ho's Oscar-winning masterpiece is obviously amazing and doesn't put a foot wrong on its own, when compared to Memories of Murder, the latter executes a level of dark comedy so deftly realized that it turns an already gritty procedural into one of the best comedic tragedies of the 2000s.