| Brief Description: | Park Chan-Wook's (Old Boy) unrelenting action film is a hard-boiled Asian thriller that hemorrhages blood, brutality, and nihilism. Shin Ha-kyun stars as Ryu, a slow-witted steel worker who kidnaps his boss' daughter in hopes of ransoming her for the cost of his sister's desperately needed kidney transplant. When the scheme goes south, Ryu and his girlfriend find themselves entangled in a hellish new reality, in which corporeal torture is an everyday event. "Brutally nihilistic, this is one of the best Korean films to have hit these shores in a very long time" (Jamie Russell, BBC). In Korean with English subtitles. |
