The reviews following the TIFF premiere of Kim Sung-Soo’s latest noir crime thriller, Asura: The City Of Madness, have all but proven favorable thusfar. It’s a good note to start with and especially for the good folks over at CJ Entertainment USA who are proudly releasing the new film in select U.S. theaters beginning on October 14.
Detective Han (Jung Woo-sung), who for years has been secretly doing dirty work for the corrupt mayor Park Sungbae (Hwang Jung-min), is now pressured by a ruthless prosecutor Kim Cha-in (Kwak Do-won) to cooperate in an investigation against the mayor. Feeling trapped, Han persuades his young partner Sunmo (Ju Ji-hoon) to take over his work for the mayor, but things start to get tangled in unpredictable ways. As things are getting worse, only the most evil survives in this dog-eat-dog world.
