You follow Detective Takabe on a grisly succession of killings. The victims share an identical macabre mark above their throats, of an 'x' slashed in. But each is murdered by a different person. And always those killers admit t...
Based on a novel by Win Lyovarin, Headshot, directed and adapted by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, is a gritty, thrilling Thai Rorschach, testing limits on character existentialism, Terrence Malick color fetishism, and upside-downed verti...
Gu-nam, a tired, down-on-his-luck, scavenger of a man, needs to repay his debts, some 60,000 yuans to gangsters in Yanbian, a prefecture between China & Russia, also a northern point to North Korea. A father and a husband, he k...
Both are juxtaposed to give us much action in still scenes. We know Leung is the good man, but we also cannot look away from his acting the good guy. He’s just too good at it to ignore.
I would imagine you just cannot form a solid alibi when you have a dead man’s entrails in personal observational vats, and he will need some experienced assistance with clearing his name from the suspect roster.
Sung has made his presence on the side of the bad a welcomed one and keeping to his duty as an officer, complying to their ethics, becomes more difficult than he originally bargained for. Although his police superior Chief Kang...
All of them, their time spent with surveillance & reconnaissance are taken away from the comfortable, leaving for expected bouts of anger and frustration. Grown men made vulnerable boys.
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