As a former CIA black ops operative, it’s easy for him to clear a room filled with members of the Russian mafia in 19 seconds, after a teenage prostitute who he has recently befriended is heavily beaten by her brutal pimp. However things aren’t that simple in action thrillers, are they? Interpreted by Denzel Washington, Robert McCall finds himself breaking his promise to his deceased wife when violence, gunfights and trouble enters his life once more. Like Cha Tae-sik, this film’s protagonist also believes to be living a quiet life, leaving his past behind and looking at a fresh bright future. An excellent cat-and-mouse game worth a watch for every thriller-lover out there. Brutal, savage yet intelligently constructed and executed. Using the skills of his past, he begins an investigation only to find himself face to face with a psychopathic murderer. The trouble begins when Eom Joong-ho, an ex-detective turned pimp, discovers two of his girls have gone missing.
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The disturbing and violent plot is inspired by a terrifying real-life serial killer who was arrested in 2004 and is now securely detained in Seoul, South Korea. “The Chaser”, a fast-moving and eventful action thriller, was director Na Hong-jin’s directorial debut. Her 17 year old brother desperately tries to find and rescue her of this disastrous accident and gets himself on a roller-coaster hunt for the life of his sister. This drama relates the kidnapping of a 13 year old girl in Mexico City who is thrown together with other victims into a network of sexual slavery. Indeed, human trafficking and child slavery is an important element in the plot of the South Korean thriller too, and a crucial topic that must still urgently be fought against, in the world we live in today. “Trade” is a powerful film inspired by an article about sex slaves, published in The New York Times Magazine in January 2004.
Read More: Movies Like The Jungle Book 11. He soon reunites with a childhood friend, who’s ambition to direct a gangster film will cost him more than he intended to give. Things start to change when he is ordered to assassinate a public prosecutor, which earns him the respect of the big boss. Kim Byung-doo is the film’s protagonist, a young man working as a gangster, struggling in helping out his family from the threat of being evicted. It will not leave you bored, that’s a promise, as its action scenes merge with the music greatly, offering a performance that’ll leave you stuck to your seat. But what the criminals do not know is that Tae-sik is skilled and dangerous ex-special agent with a trauma in his past and that he will do anything to save Somee.Less known in the Western World, “A Dirty Carnival” is a South Korean action film filled with entertaining plot points that go from one place to the complete opposite.
When Tae-sik finds the real intention of the brothers and the body of Hyo without her organs in the trunk of his car, he realizes that Somee is in danger and that Jong and Man Suk are not only drug dealers, but also organ traffickers. However, Jong and Man have called the police and are using Tae-sik to eliminate Mr. Oh, promising to release Somee and Hyo after his assignment is accomplished. Then the criminals use them to force Tae-sik to deliver the drug to Mr. But soon the drug dealers Jong Suk and his brother Man Suk discover that Hyo has stolen the drugs and they abduct Somee and Hyo to force her to tell where the drug is. Oh Myng Kyu, she hides the drug in a camera case and pawns it in Tae-sik's pawnshop.
When Hyo steals a load of drug that belongs to the Chinese trafficker lord Mr. His only friend is the girl Somee Jung, who leaves on the floor below with her reckless addicted mother Hyo-jeong that is a dancer in a nightclub. In South Korea, Cha Tae-sik is the lonely and quiet owner of a pawnshop.