Injong Sajong Polkot Opta
South Korea,
1999, 110 min
Shown in 2000
CREDITS
- dir
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Lee Myung-se
- prod
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Chung Tae-won, Kang Woo-suk
- scr
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Lee Myung-se
- cam
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Jeong Kwang-seok, Song Haeng-ki
- editor
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Go Im-pyo
- cast
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Park Joong-hoon, Ahn Sung-ki, Jang Dong-kun, Choi Ji-woo
- source
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Taewon Entertainment, 6th Fl. Kinema Bldg, Chungdam-Dong 86, Kangnam-Gu, 135-100 Seoul, Korea. FAX: 822-541-0266. EMAIL: twent@unitel.co.kr
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COMMENTS
Park Joong-hoon in person.
OTHER
Detective Woo works homicide in the Western District of the Korean port city of Inchon. He and a team of detectives set out to solve a daring daytime murder, apparently tied to the city’s drug trade. By working their way through drug underlings, the team narrows in on drug lord Chang Sungmin, and an elaborate game of cat and mouse is played for weeks as Woo relentlessly pursues the elusive killer. With a loping walk and a loopy grin, Park Joong-hoon gives a great physical performance as the foul-mouthed, bat-wielding Woo and Anh Sung-ki, familiar to many Festivalgoers from the films of Im Kwon-taek, plays nicely against type as Chang, but style is the real star of Nowhere to Hide. From its first sequences, including an assassination as memorable for its rustling yellow leaves and rain as for its act of violence, Nowhere to Hide announces itself as more than a straight action movie. No tool or technique is left untried and the film’s fights and chases are exuberant collages of color, sound and movement. Nowhere to Hide is a police procedural, a chase movie, an offbeat comedy and a whole lot of fun to watch.
—Rachel Rosen
FACTOID #200
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