Originally a model student, Hyun Soo (Kwon Sang-woo) comes to a notoriously dark school and is very dissatisfied with the situation in the school, where the teachers are very disrespectful to the students, and punch and kick the students in addition to verbal abuse. Hyun-so is the only student on campus and has no other friends. But he soon becomes good friends with a bad student, Kim Yoo-sik (Lee Jeong-jin), and the two boys fall in love with a girl named Kang Eun-joo (Han Jia-jin). Hyun-soo has an introverted personality, always shy and expresses his love to Eun-joo, and loses to Yoo-sik in love. The attack on Hyun-soo then happens again, and both Yoo-sik and Eun-joo disappear into Hyun-so's life, as Yoo-sik, who has always been competitive, loses to the others when he duels with others. These things change Hyun-soo's temperament, he becomes aggressive, and tries to practice the double knuckle stick, hoping to help his friends defeat their enemies.
"The Cruel History of Ma Congee Street" is a academic action romance film directed by South Korean director Yoo Ha, Kwon Sang-woo, Han Jia-jin, and Lee Ting-jin, which depicts the love triangle and friendship between model student Hyun-so, big brother Yu-sik and beautiful girl Yoon-soo who transfer to Main-jang High School.
The film won the Best Art Direction Award/Best Art Design Award at the 25th Korea Film Blue Dragon Awards in 2004 and the Best Film Screenplay Award at the 40th Baeksang Arts Awards in 2004.
One sentence comment: youth films, worth watching.
Douban: 7.9 points; imdb: 7.4 points.