After doing a morally good thing, which conflicts with his boss's orders, Kim Sun-woo gets banished from the gang and escapes death narrowly, just so he could come back and avenge.
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After doing a morally good thing, which conflicts with his boss's orders, Kim Sun-woo gets banished from the gang and escapes death narrowly, just so he could come back and avenge... Written by
marinanic
The narration that opens and closes the film are Buddhist parables. See more »
Goofs
Toward the end of the film, when Kim Sun-woo is walking down the corridor searching for his former boss, a guard sitting and reading a newspaper gets up to stop him. Kim Sun-woo shoots him but his gun is not pointed at the guard. Rather, it is clearly pointed at the wall where fake blood appears after the shot like a paint gun. See more »
Quotes
Sun-woo:
Send them away. I have no reason to talk with him.
Mun-suk:
C'mon Sun-woo, President Baek is my guest, show some courtesy.
Sun-woo:
No, i don't care about courtesy.
Mun-suk:
Don't do this to me, you may do this at your own club. Show me some respect.
Sun-woo:
To you? You're kidding.
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I had the luck to watch this gem at the Fantasy-Film-Festival in Frankfurt yesterday. It was shown in a theater with about 600 seats and against my expectations the room was packed with people.
In comparison with Oldboy or Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance the story is not as deep and goes more straightforward to the pure revenge theme. But this does not make the movie less enjoyable. The cinematography is brilliant and the main-character delivers a great performance. It contains beautifully choreographed martial-arts and gunfight scenes with references to masterpieces like Taxi Driver and Kill Bill.
Despite the fact it is very harsh in some scenes the humor does not come to short. The scene with a discussion of Korean-Russian wannabe-gangsters made me nearly wet my pants.
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I had the luck to watch this gem at the Fantasy-Film-Festival in Frankfurt yesterday. It was shown in a theater with about 600 seats and against my expectations the room was packed with people.
In comparison with Oldboy or Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance the story is not as deep and goes more straightforward to the pure revenge theme. But this does not make the movie less enjoyable. The cinematography is brilliant and the main-character delivers a great performance. It contains beautifully choreographed martial-arts and gunfight scenes with references to masterpieces like Taxi Driver and Kill Bill.
Despite the fact it is very harsh in some scenes the humor does not come to short. The scene with a discussion of Korean-Russian wannabe-gangsters made me nearly wet my pants.