With the recent popularity of the Korean movie "The Legend of the Wicked", it makes people's blood boil, some praise the bravery of the police, some are moved by the righteous actions of the gang boss, and let us further understand the gangster movie.
Speaking of gangster movies, people may first remember the "Ancient Puzzle Boy" series of movies starring Zheng Yijian and Chen Xiaochun, as well as the kind of brotherhood expressed in the "Infernal Affairs" movie starring Andy Lau and Liang Chaowei. However, the pattern and content of Korean gangster movies are very classic, and after watching them, people feel a little difficult to let go.
Let's take stock of those good crime and suspense movies.
I. "New World"
Directed by Park Hoon-jeong.
Starring Lee Jung-jae, Choi Min-sik, Hwang Jung-min, and Park Sung-woong.
Average review score: 8.7.
Awards: Won the 34th Korean Film Blue Dragon Awards.
Theme: Police, plot.
The film mainly tells the story of the president of the Golden Gate Group, the national violent organization and the tiger faction boss Shi Dongchu (Li Jingrong) who was killed in a car accident, which caused huge waves in black and white. In order to control the Kinmen clique further into the legal territory and avoid being as difficult to manage as foreign mafia, the main police officer proposed a "New World" plan aimed at interfering in the election of the Kinmen clique's heir. The people who have the right to be elected, mainly the representatives of the third overseas Chinese, as well as Ding Qing (Hwang Jeong-min), who is connected with the construction industry and the Four-Eyed Faction, and Lee Joong-joo (Park Sung-woong), the executive director of the Fourth and the main supporter of the Tiger Faction, follow the fierce struggle over the election of the heir. At this time, at this time of life and death, the police ordered Li Zicheng (Lee Jung-jae), who had been undercover for six years, to assist the eldest brother Ding Qing to influence the election results, but Li Zicheng, who was disgusted with the gangster life, wanted to escape, but had no choice but to receive orders from the head of the upper Section Jiang (Choi Min-sik) and continued to throw himself into this dangerous and dangerous whirlpool.
2. "Yellow Sea"
Director: Luo Hongzhen. Average review score: 8.3.
Release date: 2010.
Genre: Crime, drama, thriller.
Starring: Ha Jeong-woo, Kim Yoon-seok, Cho Sung-ha, etc.
He won the 32nd Korea Film Blue Dragon Award and the 47th Korea Baeksang Arts Awards Film Award.
The film mainly tells the story of Yanbian taxi driver Jiu Nan (Ha Jeong-woo), in order to find his wife who has been missing for six months to work in South Korea, not only living a depressed and hard life, but also carrying a bunch of debts. In order to hide his debts and find his missing wife, he agrees to the killing conditions of a gang boss (Kim Yoon-seok), asking him to go to South Korea to kill a person, and then take back the person's finger, and then give him thirty thousand yuan, and finally, Jiu Nan bids farewell to his daughter, crosses the Yellow Sea, boards South Korea, and begins his ten-day wife-hunting and murderous life...
Third, "Crime City".
Director: Kang Yoon Sung.
Average review score: 7.7.
Release date: 2017.
Genre: Action, Cop.
Starring: Ma Dong-seok, Yoon Kai-ming, Cho Jae-yun, Hong Ki-joon, etc.
After "Busan Trip" and "The Legend of the Wicked", another action film in which the enemy is torn apart, in which the character played by Ma Dong-seok is known as "a slap to the dead", Andong-seok himself is tall and tall, known as "the safest man in South Korea". The film tells the story of the Criminal Police of the South Korean Serious Crime Unit, which is written by Ma Dong-seok, who have swept away foreign criminal organizations. In 2004, a gang from Harbin entered Seoul in a big way, and what they did was fierce and stunned, causing a fierce public disgust and causing a certain social panic, the boss of the "Black Dragon Faction" organization, Zhang Qian (Yin Qiming), constantly took people's lives and seized money, and the bully forces quickly swept through the whole city of Seoul, at this time the criminal police Ma Dong-seok was bound to kill these evil forces.
Fourth, "Sunflowers".
Director: Jiang Xifan.
Release date: 2006.
Rating: 7.9.
Genre: Action, Plot.
Starring: Kim Lai-won, Han Jeong-so, Kim Hae-sook, Kim Byung-wook, Heo Eui-jae, etc
This film mainly tells the story of Tae-sik (Jin Lai-won) after dropping out of college, he became a small leader of the underworld, lived a life of fighting and killing all day, liked to drink and fight, and the more he drank, the more he fought, so he was nicknamed "Mad Dog". However, in a later fight, Tae-sik kills people and ends up in prison, while in prison, Tae-sik is determined to change his bad problems and will not fight while drinking in the future...
Fifth, "Memories of Killing". Director: Bong Joon-ho
Release date: 2003.
Genre: crime, suspense, thriller.
Rating: 8.5.
Starring: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Ro-ho, Jeong In-sun, etc.
The film tells the story of a female corpse found in a field in Hwaseong-gun, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea in 1986, the body has long been decomposed and stinky, the only thing that can be confirmed is that the female corpse was raped before she died. Two months later, murders with the same method of shooting broke out one after another. The police have no clue about such cases, and the people around them are panicked. The police then decided to organize a criminal investigation team to investigate this thorny case. So, the town's policeman Park Doo-man (Song Kang-ho) and the police from Seoul investigate these intractable cases, and in that chaotic and dilapidated era, it was very difficult to investigate such cases, and the cases reached the point where it was difficult to move forward...
VI. "The No Sweat Party"
Release date: 2017
Director: Bian Chengxian
Starring: Xue Gengqiu, Ren Shiquan, Kim Hee-won
Genre: plot, crime
Average review score: 7.8
"No Sweat Party" is a crime theme movie about undercover, the film plot is perfect, the character image is vivid, the layout is reasonable, the so-called 'Khan Party' in the movie, which means that the leper, the rogue, the ancient puzzle boy, the plot is somewhat similar to "New World", but he does not have the exquisite plot and grand pattern of "New World", the film protagonist Xue Gengqiu played by the underworld leader Zai Hao, for some reasons was arrested and imprisoned, after entering the prison he quickly became the boss of the prison, ren Shiquan played by the new generation of police Xian xiu is in danger, Responsible for undercover to the side of the black back gangster Jae-ho, they feel sorry for each other, help each other, produce a strong brotherhood, and set a brilliant record, and finally the turning point came to hyun-so's hands... After being invited to participate in the Cannes Film Festival, the popularity of "No Sweat Party" in South Korea also skyrocketed, but some people found that the film director Bian Sung-hyun had a lot of regional discrimination and female discrimination on Twitter, and then South Korean netizens launched a campaign to boycott "No Sweat Party" and give "Khan No Sweat Party" a one-star rating.
Seven, unforgivable
Release date: 2010
Director: Kim Heung-joon
Genre: plot, thriller, crime
Average review score: 7.8
Starring: Xue Gengqiu, Han Huizhen, Liu Shengfan, Zhou Xitai
Awards received: Kim Hyung-joon was nominated for the Best Newcomer Director Award at the 31st Korea Film Blue Dragon Awards for his film
The film tells the story of the original stable and beautiful city suddenly appeared a series of serial murders, and the murders are all women, six corpses were also cut into pieces by the murderer, the scene was unbearable, the people fell into a panic, the National Institute of Scientific Search Jiang Minhao (Xue Jingqiu) in order to free up more time to accompany his daughter who is dependent on him, and the boss agreed to end this tricky case after a long vacation. The murdered women were all young and beautiful women before they died, but what is suffocating and strange is that one of the arms of each deceased is missing, after a joint investigation by him and a hot-blooded policewoman with genius reasoning ability Min Ruiying (Han Huizhen), they locked the murder suspect on Li Shenghao (Liu Chengfan), but whether Li Shenghao has an accomplice is still unknown, Li Shenghao is not only an environmental protection businessman, but also very respected in society, if there is no evidence to arrest and beat, it will not end well, but what is unexpected is that, Li Shenghao actually admitted that he was the murderer of the serial murder case, because of the opposition to the drainage reclamation cause advocated by the deceased before his death, the sudden turn of the incident caught the police off guard, but things are not so simple, so Jiang Minhao and Min Ruiying fell into a stalemate of investigation, but in the middle of the negotiation with Li, Jiang Minhao's daughter suddenly disappeared, he thought that it must be related to Li, in order to rescue his daughter, Jiang Minhao and the murderer began to fight against the clock...
Eight, the war with crime: the heyday of the bad guys
Release date: 2012
Director: Yin Zhongbin
Genre: Crime, drama, black humor
Starring: Choi Min-sik, Ha Jeong-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Young-sun
In the war with crime, see how Choi Min-sik mixes up the underworld with a set of family trees. In 1982, Choi Yi-hyun (Choi Min-sik) worked at a dock at the customs, although the work of the dock was bitter, but there was still a lot of oil and water, Choi Yi-hyun often received things from people, he had a wife at home, and two daughters and a son, although the work of the dock had oil and water, but Cui Yixian this person loves face, likes to brag, often gives his son-in-law a large bag of money and gold watches, and his wife is sullen, angry and hateful below. Often walking by the river, where there are not wet shoes, but suddenly one day, Cui Yixian's customs supervision section was reported on the charge of bribery, and the chief of the supervision section, Zhao Section Chief, came up with an idea, let the people with the fewest children in the family go out to face the crime, and did not expect that Cui Yixian, who had three children in the family, became a scapegoat. In the evening, Cui Yixian and his colleagues got drunk, and suddenly found that there were two sneaky people prying the container box, after the two of them had the strength to drive away the two people, they were surprised to find that there were more than half of the drugs in the container, in the face of this situation, the two were helpless, did not know how to be good, the matter has come to this point, they decided to simply buy this bag of drugs, maybe they can make a lot of money. After that, they contacted a leader of a local gang in the Yamaguchi Group in Japan. At the dinner table, Choi Yi-hyun and Choi Kyung-bak (Ha Jeong-woo) talked loudly, claiming that he was the 35th generation grandson of the Choi Clan ZhonglieGong sect in Gyeongju, Choi Kyung-bak, the 39th generation, and affectionately called Choi Jiong-baking a grandson, and also asked him to kowtow to an, the little brother next to him couldn't see it, and it was a violent beating, and the two people who couldn't stand it had no choice but to leave. Under the persecution of his father, Cui Jiongbao recognized Cui Yixian as the eldest father, and successfully joined Cui Jiongbao's gang, and since then Cui Yixian has started his gangster career...
Nine, dark number killing
Release date: 2018
Director: Kim Tae-jun
Genre: plot, suspense, crime
Rating: 6.8
Starring: Kim Yoon-seok, Ju Ji-hoon
South Korea's most real crime film in recent years, dominating the box office for many consecutive days, the film about the murder method, the location of the body hiding, etc. are exactly the same as the real case, basically the original film made according to the case, the government is afraid of giving the victim a second injury, had to ban the film from being played in the cinema. The so-called secret number of murders refers to the crime of murder in which there are victims but no one reports the crime, no corpses, and no investigation. Compared with other forms of cases, it is extremely difficult to detect the case of the dark number killing of humans, but the protagonist of the play, Kim Heung-min (Kim Yoon-seok), has been mixed with the anti-drug team for many years, doing nothing, but he does not care about these, has always been interested in solving the case, with the strength of the case, so that he has been sticking to the front line, after an accident learned about the seven murder cases of Kang Tae-woo (Played by Zhu Ji-hoon), once again aroused his interest, but first of all he did not believe Kang Tae-woo's words, because this kind of case is not only old, And why would the suspect explain the crime he committed, isn't this a sheep into the tiger's mouth, but he found the victim's clothes after the map drawn by Jiang Taiwu, which made him decide to insist on finding out the facts of the case...
Ten, friends
Release date: 2001
Director: Guo Xuanze
Genres: Crime, Friendship, Action, Gangster, Plot
Starring: Jang Dong-kin, Liu Wu-sheng, Seo Tae-ho, Kim Jong-kim, Zhu Hyun
In Busan in 1978, Dong-so (Jang Dong-kin) is a child of a poor family, and Joon-sook (Yoo Woo-seok) is the son of a triad group boss, a particularly hard-working Son-tae and a particularly kind-hearted Young-ho. Sam Tae often takes the first place in the school, while Dong Soo and Joon Soo are problem boys who get into trouble everywhere, but the four of them are good friends. Dong-so and Joon-sook, who later entered middle school, were expelled from the school for taking the lead for Son-tae. In Seoul in 1984, after entering the university, ShanTai and Yongga looked for the whereabouts of two friends, but these two friends have now joined the underworld. One is in jail and one is in drug rehabilitation. In the autumn of 1990, Shantai, who studied in the United States, returned to China for a vacation and lamented the friendship of the old days. Due to their mutual revenge in gang fights, Dong-soo and Joon-sook have become real enemies, how do they face their former friends? After watching "Friends", you can't calm down for a long time, first of all, you are very envious of the friendship of the four of them, but the strong friendship is a floating cloud in front of reality and interests, and sometimes it is not your opponent who beats you, but a friend who gets along day and night and cares about himself very much.