A gambling fixer, his drag queen girlfriend, and one last fight where everyone's playing everyone.
Baji (Han Jae-Suk) is tops in his field for organizing underground fights with illegal wagers placed on the fights. The owner of the location for the underground fights is Boss Jang (Song Young-Chang). Baji is now in serious debt and Boss Jang recommends a way for him to climb out of his debt. Baiji lets gambler James (Jung Sung-Hwa) join in on the illegal wagers. James is very sharp and also wields considerable financial power. Baiji then puts together a 9 member team to manipulate the bets. Baiji's girlfriend Seon-Nyeo (Park Seong-Woong) joins the team. The fights progress as planned, but with 2 fights left Boss Jang and James comes to Baiji looking for a piece of the action. The betting has now completely changed. There is only one fight left and the battle of wits begin ...
Acting
Park Sung-woong's scene-stealing turn as Seon-Nyeo
Direction
Lee Seong-han's sleazy-neon visual language
Writing
Triple-cross structure that actually lands
Director
Lee Seong-han
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Park Sung-woong's casting as Seon-Nyeo subverted Korean cinema's treatment of LGBTQ+ characters in 2011—she's neither punchline nor tragedy, but the smartest person in the room.
The film's 'baji' title refers to both the protagonist's name and Korean betting slang, a linguistic double-cross baked into the marketing.
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