An idealistic policeman must bring down his estranged older brother, now a powerful gangster in a South Korean port city.
Acting
Ju Jin-mo's tortured swagger channels classic heroic bloodshed.
Direction
Song Hae-sung worships at Woo's altar but finds quieter grief.
Cinematography
Busan's docks look gorgeously doomed at golden hour.
Director
Song Hae-sung
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This remake arrived during Korea's 2010s boom in masculine melodrama, when films like 'New World' were redefining gangster grief.
Song Seung-heon took the Chow Yun-Fat role specifically to shed his pretty-boy image—notice how the film uglies him up through suffering.
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