Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.
Direction
Kim Jee-woon turns a hallway into a cathedral of violence.
Acting
Lee Byung-hun's face does more acting than most scripts.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like it wants to be your phone wallpaper.
Director
Kim Jee-woon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The hallway fight took six days to film and Lee Byung-hun performed most of his own stunts.
This cemented Kim Jee-woon's reputation for 'beautiful violence' and directly influenced John Wick's gun-fu aesthetic.
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