Brace yourselves: it's a Korean spaghetti western set during the Japanese occupation of China.And it's amazing.
Park Chang-yi (Byung-hun Lee) is a bad motherfucker. So when a train robber named Yoon Tae-goo (Kang-ho Song) steals a treasure map from under his very nose, he is not pleased. Adding to the mix is bounty hunter Park Do-won (Woo-sung Jung) aiming to bring both of the outlaws down. But they're not the only ones after the treasure, supposedly buried after the Qing Dynasty. The Chinese underworld, the Japanese army, and Korean independence fighters are all looking to get paid.
I cannot stress to you how awesome this movie is. It's funny and silly and packed to the gills with action. Far from being just another knock-off, this is a love letter to all things spaghetti western. Stone-faced killers, rolling tumbleweed, slapdash frontier towns filled with inexplicably good-looking women and filthy men armed to the (blackened) teeth, vendettas, buried treasure, honor, betrayal, and more. This is the Man with No Name trilogy served with a side of bulgogi.
Clocking in at 2 hours, 10 minutes, you're going to want to clear your schedule for this one.
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