

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
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.