the policeman’s lineage

THE POLICEMAN’S LINEAGE Review: Slow Burn Good Cop/Bad Cop Crime Thriller Stands With Conviction

Lee Kyu-man’s fourth feature now out in the U.S. from Echelon Studios brings us an adaptation of a hit Japanese crime novel published in 2006 which was later adapted for TV Asashi in 2009. For this, we get a two-hour introspective crime epic in The Policeman’s Lineage that introduces the time-honored tale of two very different kinds of cops who land themselves en route to a whole lot of trouble. The film opens with a footchase in a dark and murky street in the rain that results in the death of a cop and his killer getting away. That’s the bloody and grim precursor to the story of a by-the-book rookie named Choi Min-Jae (Choi Woo-sik), a third-generation police officer who gets courted by higher-ups and Internal Affairs, and assigned to a seperate unit led Park Kang-yoon (Cho Jin-woong) who is being investigated despite his exemplary arrest record, and his […]

Korean Crime Drama THE POLICEMAN’S LINEAGE Arrives In The U.S. On June 7

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Echelon Studios is taking the wheel for director Lee Kyu-man’s thrilling new crime drama, The Policeman’s Lineage which bowed in Korea back in January. The film stars Choi Woo-sik (Parasite) and Cho Jin-woong (The Handmaiden), along with Park Myeong-hoon (Parasite), and Park Hee-soon (Apple TV+’s “Dr. Brain”) for the film’s digital, VOD and cable releases on June 7. Parasite’s Woo-sik Choi stars as Choi Min-Jae, a rookie police officer and a man of principle, who teams up with Park Gang-Yoon, the chief of an investigation team that has an unrivaled arrest record but includes corrupt methods. Together, the two very different policemen dive deep into a massive case that shakes the police force upside down. The Policeman’s Lineage is produced by Lee Han-seung (The Tower), and exec produced by Jung Hyun-joo (The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil). The film’s cable, digital and VOD releases will be held by Comcast, Charter-Spectrum, […]

THE POLICEMAN’S LINEAGE: Embattled Police Tatics Ensue In The First Trailer For Lee Kyoo-Man’s New Crime Thriller

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Only his fourth film to date, director Lee Kyoo-man is back to impress with a cast led by Cho Jin-woo (Me and Me, Man Of Men) and Choi Woo-sik (Time To Hunt, Parasite) for his latest crime thriller, The Policeman’s Lineage. The film, based on Joh Sasaki’s 2006 novel and subsequent 2009 TV Asashi drama and which is currently repped for sales by Contents Panda, was previously dated for this year but is now set for a January 2022 Korean release, and with an official trailer and poster art to further seal the deal. Min-jae who is a policeman from generation to generation has been ordered to investigate Kang-yoon secretly, who is the ace team leader of investigation team. Min-jae is appointed as the member of Kang-yoon’s team. Min-jae has belief of “If the police do something illegal even it has been occurred during the process of investigation, he is […]