"Ya-soo" 13 January 2006 (South Korea).
Tagline: Two men who will remain in your hearts.
User review: 6.3
Filming LocationsSouth Korea
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Directed by: Sung-su Kim Runtime: 124 min | 144 min (director's cut) Released in: South Korea Language(s): Korean Production company: Popcorn Films
Official CertificationsSouth Korea:18 | Singapore:M18 | Singapore:NC-16 (edited version) | Malaysia:(Banned) | Germany:18 | Japan:R-15
User CommentsNiiiiiiiiice!!! Macho! Gangsta! Cold Blooded! Tragic Heroism.... - rivermanfire from United States*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Good stuff baby! Homicide Detective JANG and Chief Inspector OH are hot
on the trail of the ever elusive and seemingly untouchable Gangster
boss YU.
Now Jang is like a thug himself beating out confessions and going on
vigilante rampages but the man is on a mission of revenge. Inspector OH
, on the other hand is your clean cut, by the book career cop trying to
make the world a better place by fighting organized crime. Extenuating
circumstances bring the two together because they are after the same
people essentially in Boss YU and his crime family.
Boss YU is not one to be trifled with as he is major connected in
legitimate and illegitimate ways to the top of the food chain in the
gangster and political scene. He is like the Zen Master Gangster who is
adept at the Art of War. He is always pulling something out to escape
the clutches of his foes and those who are against him or stand in his
way always face death or double cross.
The tension is high and the pace never relents. Each scene plays out
like a chess game that is opening up as the story unfolds revealing
bits and pieces of a murderous game. The acting is superb if you like
intensity and the quality of production is impressive to say the least.
The characters are definitely attention getting. The tension between
the three main players just burns with each pursuing a destiny that
consumes them.
Wild and Gritty - plokkr123 from anchorage,akThis film is about corruption and wild negative life of people against
the rules. it just a like CSI, Miami VICE...or maybe SWAT! hehehe...
Just full of action reloaded. GOOD FILM! In this film, K.S.W is become
an irretated and rude inspector who's believe he can solved all the
problem by his own rules,and with his own ways. Until one day he have a
new incomer to the department of police to be his partner. The whole
big problem has begin to come.
The plot become more complex, when K.S.W have face his family problem,
and work cause by the bad guys.
This film has a good cinematography and full with action pack.
Pheww!!!...i'm really like the part when K.W.S start to kick those bad
guys and for sure...at the last scene...hmm...see it for yourself to
feel it.
Some missed opportunities - kosmaspI like Korean action cinema. They don't have to hide behind US
Blockbusters, quite the contrary, there are movies that excel some of
the Hollywood fare. But this movie is not quite up to that task, which
is a shame.
The outline overall is quite good, the main actors are real enough
(although their motives and intentions might be unclear and stay that
way for some western audience members). The action set pieces are good,
but a bit too shaky for my taste. A previous reviewer compared this
movie to the wonderful "A bittersweet Life". I'd steer away from that
comparison. A bittersweet Life is much more philosophical than this
movie is, but more about that movie under it's own IMDb page (I highly
recommend you to watch "A bittersweet Life")
Disappointing Korean cop drama - kevbee from Birmingham, England'Running Wild' stars Kwon Sang Woo (Love So Divine) as chain-smoking
jaded homicide detective Jang, who has lost faith in the judicial
system and now pursues a maverick line of police inquiry. He's after a
cruel crime lord called Yu, but thus far he's been unable to pin the
guy down. Also after Yu is an elite prosecutor, Oh, played by Yoo Ji
Tae (Old Boy). In contrast to Jang, this character is obsessive that
rules and procedures must be obeyed. I think you can guess the next
bit! Jang and Oh's paths cross and this mismatched pair form an uneasy
alliance to bring the bad guy down. But to do this, they have to fight
fire with fire and break the rules.
This sounds quite good on paper but sadly it doesn't work on screen.
Maybe it was too ambitious as a directorial debut from Kim Sung Soo and
most certainly it was miscast. Kwon Sang Woo is best known for light
romantic comedies and a host of tear-jerking TV dramas in which he
excels. I can't blame the actor if he wants to break away from that
mould, but somehow he's just too handsome. So having unkempt hair,
sporting an incongruous moustache and shouting a lot doesn't convince
me that he's been through hell and high water in a police department.
There are a lot of action scenes, most of which sadly fail to impress.
Apparently, director Kim Sung Soo is a protégé of Park Chan Wook. He
still has a lot to learn. If you want to see a great Korean film about
a maverick cop, then check out 'Public Enemy'.
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