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Overview

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6.2/10   143 votes
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Director:
Kwon-taek Im
Writer:
Kwon-taek Im (writer)
Contact:
View company contact information for Low Life on IMDbPro.
Release Date:
21 May 2004 (South Korea) more
Genre:
Action | Crime | Drama
Awards:
2 nominations more
User Comments:
Ambition Falls Flat more

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Seung-woo Cho ... Choi Tae-woong
Min-sun Kim ... Park Hye-ok
Hak-jun Kim ... Oh Sang-pil
Ha-jun You ... Park Seung-mun
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bo-yeon Kim
Hye-yeong Lee
Jung-Hee Moon
Seon-mi Yeon
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Low Life (International: English title)
Raging Years (South Korea) (DVD box title)
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Runtime:
South Korea:105 min | Canada:99 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
Country:
South Korea
Language:
Korean
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
South Korea:15

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7 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
Ambition Falls Flat, 21 September 2004
5/10
Author: liamcolle from Toronto, Canada

I recently saw this film at the Toronto International Film Festival and was considerably disappointed with the undeniably poor execution of Lowlife. At first I was charmed by the studio lot setting and the curiously out of place fight sequences, but eventually the poor editing and confused narrative line left me impatiently waiting for the credits to roll. The director attempts to tell a sprawling story of one man's tumultuous maturation within the context of South Korean political situation during the second half of the 20th century. And although I'm not acquainted with that history, it seems the film takes a very simplistic approach to the period's temperaments. The filmmakers simply try to do too much, eventually diminishing the potency latent in the socio-political situation as well as the engaging performance of the lead actor. The film definitely has more of a movie of the week feel to it with all its heavy-handedness and slap-dash film-making. The fact that the film was rushed (ironically, much like the films being satirized within the film) is most evident in a sequence where the lead and another actor sit in front of a store in the 1960s with modern NFL gear inside. Now i'm not a stickler for continuity but c'mon.

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