my wife is a gangster

I am told that actor and filmmaker Dustin Nguyen is developing a Vietnamese remake of South Korean action comedy, My Wife Is A Gangster for production later this year. The project is one of at least two movies now in development for Nguyen to helm since taking the mantle for his 2013 martial arts fantasy debut, Once Upon A Time In Vietnam (a.k.a. Lua Phat). Jo Jin-kyu directed the 2001 original in which actress Shin Eun-kyung plays Eun-jin (a.k.a. Mantis), an underworld enforcer with no real sense of her own femininity or the world outside of gang life. Despite this, Eun-jin is forced to mitigate between her secret life in the world of violent mafia politics, and fulfilling her sister’s dying wish: to see Eun-jin get married and settle down with a family. Jo’s My Wife Is A Gangster, which also saw Kim Won-jin (of Hong Kong actioner Operation Scorpio) […]

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