Saturday, June 8, 2019

The Man from Nowhere (2010)

Y'all sleeping on Korean John Wick here.  Get on it.  Streaming on Prime.  You have no excuse.  Originally published 03 Nov 13.  http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/9/92/TMFNWPoster.jpg/300px-TMFNWPoster.jpg  Holy shit, I have to own this movie.  This is one of those random "Netflix suggests" films I added to my queue like two and a half years ago and oh my God, it is amazing.

Did you ever watch The Professional and think, "man, I wish that guy was Asian.  And hot."  Well, the gods of Korean cinema were listening and they got your back.

Cha Tae-shik (Won Bin) is a quiet pawnshop owner.  His only human interaction is with So-mi (Kim Sae-ron), a little girl who lives next door.  When So-mi's mother (Kim Hyo-seo) rips off some heroin and hides it in Tae-shik's pawnshop, the dealers comes after everyone.  They take So-mi and her mom hostage and force Tae-shik to do a run for them.  But they do not understand precisely with whom they are fucking, as Tae-shik is a badass of the highest order.

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