After the feel-good dramas “Paper Flower” and “Eomung” in 2019, Koh Hoon ventures in comedy-land with a re-elaboration of the familiar theme of gangsters in disguise.
The film starts with a family extermination that will trigger a personal vendetta later in the story. Well, actually, the extermination is none other than the accidental death of little hamster Hairy under the wheel of a gang Boss' car. In fact, Hairy's owner, Cha Do-pil A.K.A. “Mad Dog” (Ji Seung-hyun) is an eccentric policeman who regards the little animal as his daughter and his whole family, while the family-annihilator is Boss Hwang (Kim Jung-tae), on his way to take down a rival gang. The latter is celebrating their Boss Jang's birthday with a picnic on the beach and a Hamtaro-shaped cake (Boss Jang loves hamsters too!). However, the merry day is interrupted by Hwang and his thugs who storm in, kill Boss...
The film starts with a family extermination that will trigger a personal vendetta later in the story. Well, actually, the extermination is none other than the accidental death of little hamster Hairy under the wheel of a gang Boss' car. In fact, Hairy's owner, Cha Do-pil A.K.A. “Mad Dog” (Ji Seung-hyun) is an eccentric policeman who regards the little animal as his daughter and his whole family, while the family-annihilator is Boss Hwang (Kim Jung-tae), on his way to take down a rival gang. The latter is celebrating their Boss Jang's birthday with a picnic on the beach and a Hamtaro-shaped cake (Boss Jang loves hamsters too!). However, the merry day is interrupted by Hwang and his thugs who storm in, kill Boss...
- 4/3/2024
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Ordinary Person Review Ordinary Person (2015) Film Review from the 16th Annual New York Asian Film Festival, a movie directed by Kim Bong-Han, starring Hyeon Ju-Son, Sang-Ho Kim, Hyuk Jang, Dal-Hwan Jo, Seung-Hyeon Ji, Man-Sik Jeong, Yoon-So Choi, Ji-il Park, and Mi-ran Ra. Ordinary Person was a creeping political thriller, that may lull some viewers into not recognizing it as such, at first. [...]
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- 7/15/2017
- by Sam Joseph
- Film-Book
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