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Watch: ‘Derailed’ New Korean Action Noir Starring Ma Dong-Seok and Choi Min-Ho

, which screened in the “Korean Cinema Today: Panorama” section at the 2016 BIFF, is an and film helmed by first-time director .

Director Lee, who previously served as an assistant director on films like The Red Shoes (2005) and Modern Boy (2008), has been working on a wide variety of short films, one of which, The Ten-Minute Break, about two soldiers on the hunt for a deserter, has received international recognition at film festivals.

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The film features  from the boy band SHINee and a.k.a. who pulled off a string of roles as a character actor in notable films such as The Good, The Bad and the Weird (2008) and Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012), and in recent years, has been making the leap to leading actor, starring in Norigae (2013), Murderer (2013) and Deep Trap (2015).

In the wake of Ma Dong-seok's powerful performance in Yeon Sang-ho's Train to Busan, the film is attracting particular attention.

Plot

Jin-il (Min-ho) and Ga-young (Da-eun) are teen runaways. They stay with other runaway kids and resort to stealing to survive living on the streets. When they are out of money, they scheme to swindle Hyung-seok (Ma Dong-seok). But their scheme soon goes awry, with Ga-young becoming a hostage.

Derailed, about the ruthlessness of life on the streets, is currently playing at cinemas in South Korea.

Director: Lee Seong-tae
Cast: Ma Dong-seok, Choi Min-ho
Production company: MCMC
Distributor: Cine Guru-Kidari Ent Corp.
World sales: M-LINE Distribution
Release dates: October 2016 (BIFF) November 30, 2016 (South Korea)
Running time: 92 mins

 

Sources: Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), Kobiz

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Panos Kotzathanasis

My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.

Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.

In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.

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