After a traumatic event, a drug trafficker turns sides and conspires with a dangerously ambitious undercover police officer to bring down the mysterious kingpin of a major drug cartel.
Acting
Kim Joo-hyuk's final performance—charming, terrifying, gone too soon.
Direction
Lee Hae-young makes every lab explosion feel like personal tragedy.
Score
Pulses like a heartbeat under floorboards.
Director
Lee Hae-young
Cho Jin-woong
Won-ho
Ryu Jun-yeol
Seo Young-rak
Kim Joo-hyuk
Jin Ha-rim
Cha Seung-won
Brian
Kim Sung-ryung
Oh Yeon-ok
Park Hae-joon
Park Seon-chang
Nam Moon-chul
Department Head
Seo Hyun-woo
Jeong-il
Kang Seung-hyun
So-yeon
Jung Jun-won
Deok-cheon
Jung Ga-ram
Dong-woo
Jin Seo-yeon
Bo-ryeong
Kim Dong-young
Dong-yeong
Lee Zoo-young
Joo-yeong
Keum Sae-rok
Soo-jeong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is Korea's remake of Johnnie To's 'Drug War' (2012), but swaps Hong Kong's operatic chaos for something colder, more methodical—like comparing a scream to a held breath.
Kim Joo-hyuk died in a car accident months after filming; his Brian—charismatic, doomed, impossible to pin down—feels unintentionally prophetic. The role was originally written older; Kim made him young and hungry.
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