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NIGHT OF THE ASSASSIN Review: Kwak Jeong-Deok’s Heroic Bloodshed Debut Wields With Vitality

Well Go USA’s premiere Asian film streamer, Hi-YAH!, will launch Night Of The Assassin on July 21, with an August 8 release on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD. Kwak Jeong-deok’s feature debut arrives in the U.S. with Night Of The Assassin, a period story set during a tumultuous time where power is up for grabs between anyone seeking it, and willing to hire anyone deadly enough to help get it. Inan (Shin Hyun-joon) is one such person – a fearsome swordsman with skills to match the reputation he’s earned. One fateful night, however, a long-dormant pulmonary illness surfaces, forcing him to seek a healer only to be advised that his next battle could be his last. A year later, the wayward Inan finds himself roaming a mountain village whereupon after stopping a gang of bandits from harrassing a tavern owner named Seon-hong (Kim Min-kyung), she takes him in for a day […]

Well Go USA’s NIGHT OF THE ASSASSIN Kills On Hi-YAH!, Disc And Digital This Summer!

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Remember The Assassin? Welp, that one’s coming to the U.S. too. Well Go USA did the lord’s work this year and acquired director Kwak Jeong-deok’s sword-wielding freshman thriller, and they’ve put out the first trailer with the requisite retitling, Night Of The Assassin. After a deadly, long-dormant health condition surfaces during a mission, Joseon’s most lethal assassin goes into hiding to seek a cure without revealing his identity. But upon witnessing a ruthless campaign of terror against local villagers, the region’s deadliest killer comes out of retirement in order to exact his own brutal brand of vigilante justice. The Joseon-era action thriller stars Shin Hyun-joon, Lee Moon-sik, Kim Min-kyun, Hong Eunki, and Kim Byung-choon. Well Go USA’s premiere Asian film streamer, Hi-YAH!, will launch the pic on July 21, with an August 8 release on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD.

Shin Hyun-Joon Kills It As THE ASSASSIN In The First Teaser!

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Part of my hope nowadays as we get a look at this newest South Korean sword slasher, The Assassin, is that it’ll help spotlight another film featuring the same star at the time. Indeed it was Kim Young-jun’s Bichunmoo: Warrior Of Virtue that put actor Shin Hyun-joon on my radar a little over fifteen years ago, and with a film wholly indicative of the types of wuxia and kung fu productions the likes of fans of Wong Jing and Tsui Hark could take a liking to, and frankly it deserves a place somewhere on one of today’s current streaming mediums if not a renewed physical release at some point. At any rate, we now leave it to the efforts of director Kwak Jeong-deok in what seems like his debut feature film after years of hacking away at the keyboard as screenwriter for titles like 2019 disaster thriller, Ashfall, and Kim […]