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  • Review: Crying Fist (Ryoo Seung-Wan / 2005)

    Review: Crying Fist (Ryoo Seung-Wan / 2005)

    Kang Tae-Shik is an aging boxer with his glory days behind him. Although a silver medallist in the Asian Games in 1990, he’s now a poor man chased by debt-collectors and with little to offer his increasingly distant wife and son. He spends his days...

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  • Review: Bloody Ties (Choi Ho / 2006)

    Review: Bloody Ties (Choi Ho / 2006)

    Sang Do is a small time drug dealer who has a growing business but who also has the problem of being hassled by a wild Detective called Ho. The Detective spends much of his time repeatedly arresting him up and threatening him with prison time...

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