Shin Ha-kyun

Four unlikely assassins genuinely care about their customers and victims, meanwhile a prosecutor is on their trail.Read More »

Synopsis:
Two brothers were born within a year of each other. The younger brother ‘Jong-hyun’ is only good at fighting, and his older brother ‘Seong-hyun’ is good at studying and has a warm heart. Jong-hyun has largely ignored Seong-hyun. They have studied in the same class, in the same school. Their mother loves only Seong-hyun.They fall in love with the same girl, but she only likes Jong-hyun. Because of their mother and her, the brothers’ conflicts never stop…Read More »

From modernkoreancinema.com
The burden of expectation can sometimes be a heavy weight to bear and after a little too much of it, many films simply crumble. In 2009, an indie Korean film clocking in at three and a half hours began to make the rounds of the festival circuit and attracted some very positive attention. After a full year screening at various events it was finally accorded a domestic release in late December 2010 but, like the vast majority of independent features, it failed to find an audience in Korea. A number of people (myself included) patiently awaited its DVD release but it never came… until now. After premiering at the Busan Film Festival in October 2009, Café Noir was finally released on DVD in June 2012. While I can’t say exactly why the wait for the disc was so long, I can, to some extent, understand it.Read More »

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As anyone who’s watched “The Way of the Gun” knows, the furthest distance between two points is always between a kidnapper and his money. In “Sympathy for Mr Vengeance”, though, getting the money is easy. It’s staying alive long enough to spend it that’s the problem.

Taking its cue from the Pang brothers’ similarly excellent “Bangkok Dangerous”, “Sympathy for Mr Vengeance” stars Shin Ha-kyun as Ryu, a deaf and dumb steelworker who kidnaps his boss’ daughter in order to pay for a kidney operation for his beloved sister. Nothing goes according to plan, and what ought to have been easy money soon turns into blood money.Read More »