Nameless Gangster (2012)
"Bumchoiwaui junjaeng" (original title)

On the verge of being fired, a corrupt customs official finds a haul of drugs and teams up with a vicious gangster to become the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.

Director:

Jong-bin Yun

Writer:

Jong-bin Yun

Stars:

Min-sik Choi, Jung-woo Ha, Peter Cavnoudias

3 wins & 10 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Min-sik Choi	...	Choi Ik-hyun
Jung-woo Ha	...	Choi Hyung-bae
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Peter Cavnoudias
Jin-woong Jo	...	Kim Pan-ho
Hye-eun Kim	...	Night Club Manager
Seong-gyoon Kim	...	(as Sung-kyun Kim)
Young Sun Kim	...	Ik-hyun's Wife
Yun-seok Kim
Do Won Kwak	...	Park Chan-woo
Dong-seok Ma	...	Kim Sung-bang

Storyline

On the verge of being fired, a corrupt customs official finds a haul of drugs and teams up with a vicious gangster to become the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.

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Plot Keywords:

gangster | yakuza | heroin smuggling | organized crime | beating with a stick | 

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Genres:

Crime | Thriller

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Details

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Release Date:

2 February 2012 (South Korea)

Also Known As:

Nameless Gangster

Filming Locations:

Busan, South Korea

Box Office

Budget:

KRW 10,000,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

134 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

Well done Korean style gangster movie

First, forgive me for sounding redundant, but in my opinion, Korean movies nowadays has surpassed Hollywood movies in term of storyline. I just can't stand how nowadays CGI has become kind of plague in almost every major movies of Hollywood with thin storyline. Not that CGI is a bad thing really but it just kinda hurt to see how decent Hollywood movies without CGI or dirty teen humor are failing in today's box office.

And although it's not a Hollywood produced, but watching 'Nameless Gangster' is like a remedy to bring back those old sweet experiences when movies are all but the lavish computer generated images. Loyalty, deception, greed, arrogance, corruption, integrity, well it just hold too much elements in storytelling of being an epic gangster movie with some comical situation which wouldn't hurt nobody. You won't find bullets flying or machetes swinging but you'll find a compelling story of how a minor custom officer build up his career through the top of Busan underground society and the downfall later on.

While it's not fair to compare Nameless Gangster head to head with classic Scorsese's picture like Goodfellas, but one can't help but to notice the similarity, and indeed both movies did build the same tense of depicting the long shot career of an underground character to build both our sympathy and repulsion. Choi Min Sik is a real versatile Korean actor, he has done a stretch range of convincing acting from a vicious protagonist in 'Oldboy' to a brutal serial killer in 'I Saw the Devil', and here he scored once again to add more depth to the movie with Ha Jung Woo putting the equal class of performance. Just great.

So give it a try if you're looking for a well packed story of a gangland world, but in Korean style if not to say in Eastern style, mind you!

It's a shame this movie didn't get enough attention as it should be...