Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.
Cinematography
Every frame could hang in a gallery. Red never looked this dangerous.
Direction
Refn at his most uncompromising—love it or hate it, you won't forget.
Score
Cliff Martinez's synth drone crawls under your skin and stays there.
Director
Nicolas Winding Refn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gosling and Refn lived together during filming to build Julian's repressed psychology; Gosling ate Thai food exclusively and barely spoke on set.
The karaoke scenes reference Thai pop culture while Chang embodies the spiritual figure of the 'angel of death' in Buddhist-influenced crime folklore.
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