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DIRTY MONEY Is Afoot In The Latest Trailer Footage For Kim Min-Soo’s Crime Thriller Debut!
Kingmaker and The Merciless scribe Kim Min-soo is out and about these days with crime thriller Dirty Money, which is currently bowing as of this article for its final night of screenings for Busan film festival audiences. The film actually finished filming mid-2020 as well which ought to give anyone waiting for its upcoming local Korean release on October 17 and abroad a much-needed breath of fresh air. Two detectives in need; Myung-deuk looks after gang and takes bribes for his sick daughter; Dong-hyuk assists Myung-deuk to pay off his gambling debts. One day they hear an information that Chinese gang is shipping a big amount of cash abroad and decide to steal it for themselves. But things go wrong and they’re now chased both by police and Chinese gang. Dirty Money is Kim’s directorial debut, and stars Jung Woo (Hot Blooded), Kim Dae-myung (Alienoid 1 & 2), and Park […]
HOT BLOODED Soils The Hands Of Gangsters In The Official Trailer
Gearing up for a March 23 release around its parts, South Korean crime pic, Hot Blooded, is bringing the dramatic thrills and action to tease the appetite some in the official trailer just above. Cheon Myeong-kwan makes his debut from his own script, adapted from a 2016 novel by author Kim Eon-Soo. Kuam is a shabby port town in the shadow of stunning port city of Busan. Hee-su is a third-rate gangster who has been acting like a hotel manager under Don Son for 20 years. Seemingly out of nowhere, Yong-kang, who fled the country as a murder suspect, returns home and begins causing trouble all over town, which only adds pressure to Hee-su. “Drugs? Port? What’s going on?” When he finally comes to, he’s in the middle of this turmoil. What decisions can he make to save his pitiful soul? Hot Blooded stars Jung Woo (New Trial), Kim Kap-soo […]
HOT BLOOD: Post-Production Underway For New Korean Noir Thriller
Some new details are floating about online for Hot Blood (a.k.a. The Boiling Blood), a new noir thriller that just wrapped a four-month shoot in July for an early 2020 release. Based on a novel by Kim Un-su, Jung Woo (The Himayalas) plays a port city mid-level gangster with his own outfit while moonlighting as a hotel manager in Busan. His dreams of settling down with girlfriend In-Sook are dashed when he gets swept into a gang war. Novelist and screenwriter Cheon Myoung-Kwan makes his long-awaited feature debut at the film, effectively returning to film following a screenwriting career in the 1990s. In-Sook is played by award-winning actress Yoon Ji-Hye (Asura: City Of Madness), with actors Kim Kap-soo (Steel Rain) and Choi Moo-sung (Long Live The King) also starring. (KOBIZ)