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Trailer for Upcoming Korean Film “The Drug King” by Woo Min-ho

A new film is quite the event in South Korean cinema. Possibly the country's biggest superstar, and one of the best known South Korean actors around the world, Song Kang-ho is known to star in massive hits and his films are often South Korea's official entries to the Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language category (all three of his latest films “A Taxi Driver”, “The Age of Shadows” and “The Throne” were successive submissions). So when he teams up with “Inside Men” director and , one of South Korea's best actresses and Song Kang-ho's co-star from “The Host”, big things are expected from the resulting collaboration “”.

Synopsis

Set in Busan, South Korea during the 1970's, Lee Doo-Sam builds an empire as a drug smuggler in the Busan underworld, while public prosecutor Kim In-goo attempts to take down Lee Doo-Sam.

Joining Song Kang-ho and Bae Donna (“The Host”, “Cloud Atlas”) is a strong supporting cast of Jo Jung-suk, who also starred alongside Song Kang-ho in “The Face Reader”, as Prosecutor Kim In-goo, (“1987: When The Day Comes”, “Haemoo”) and (“Rampant”, “Inside Men”) as well as a special appearance from the in-demand (“The Witness”, “A Spy Gone North”). “The Drug King” releases in South Korea in December, 2018, with a limited worldwide release to follow later.

About the author

Rhythm Zaveri

Hello, my name is Rhythm Zaveri. For as long as I can remember, I've been watching movies, but my introduction to Asian cinema was old rental VHS copies of Bruce Lee films and some Shaw Bros. martial arts extravaganzas. But my interest in the cinema of the region really deepened when I was at university and got access to a massive range of VHS and DVDs of classic Japanese and Chinese titles in the library, and there has been no turning back since.

An avid collector of physical media, I would say Korean cinema really is my first choice, but I'll watch anything that is south-east Asian. I started contributing to Asian Movie Pulse in 2018 to share my love for Asian cinema in the form of my writings.

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