Ryoo Seung-wan Archive

Review: No Blood No Tears (Ryoo Seung-wan / 2002)

Posted on July 3, 2010 | No Comments
Su-ji is an ex-criminal who drives a taxi to make a living. When the girlfriend of a local gangster crashes into her car, Su-ji finds herself dragged into dealing with both people from her past life and that the young girlfriend – Kyeong-seon – won’t...
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Review: Crying Fist (Ryoo Seung-Wan / 2005)

Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
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: The City of Violence (Ryoo Seung-wan / 2006)

Posted on September 26, 2009 | No Comments
A group of old friends are reunited when Wang-jae – one of their old school friends – is murdered. City cop Tae-su and occassional thug Seok-hwan (who is Wang-jaes brother) start their own individual investigations into just who is responsible – and manage to find...
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Review: Arahan (Ryoo Seung-wan / 2004)

Posted on September 10, 2009 | No Comments
Sang-hwan is a traffic cop who is new to his job and who tries (often unsuccessfully) to do the best job possible. While pursuing a bag-thief he comes across a young girl called Eui-jin who accidentally hits him with a ‘Palm Blast’ which knocks him...
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