JUNG Woo-sung: The Star, the Actor, the Artist

Asura: The City of Madness

KIM Sung-soo|Korea|2016 |136min |18+

Code Time Theater Rate GV
101 7/13  10:30 - 12:46 Bucheon City Hall, Main Theater(2F) 18
912 7/21  16:30 - 18:46 Korea Manhwa Museum 18 GV
101 7/13  10:30 - 12:46Bucheon City Hall, Main Theater(2F)
18
912 7/21  16:30 - 18:46Korea Manhwa Museum
18  GV

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Program Note

A rogue mayor controls a fictitious city. A prosecutor pursues the mayor’s shortcomings and the corrupt police officers on the payroll. Revealing a cross-section of our society as hell through which the wicked drift solely for their own benefit.

Program Note

Mayor Park Sung-bae literally controls Annam City. No journalist, prosecution, police or business group related to the city are free from the hands of Park. Park Sung-bae’s stepbrother, Do-kyung, is one of his subordinates. The main job of Do-kyung is to support and deal with all the bad things Park does to protect his interests. Prosecutor Kim Cha-in, who decided to sacrifice Park Sung-bae as a victim to his success, uses Do-kyung’s weakness and tries to dig into Park’s corruption. Sun-mo, a junior detective who was greatly cared by Do-kyung like his brother, chose to stand on the side of mayor Park rather than Dokyung, and their fight turns the city of Annam into a hell. Instead of a fierce brain fight, the conspiracy of threat and terrorism is rampant, and the scenes of blood and bone are scattered even if they are not well-designed actions. It would be fair to say that the disloyal war without sympathy of ‘the bad’ is the Korean version of the novel¡¸Red Harvest¡¹written by Dashiell Hammett. (KIM Yong-eon)

Director

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KIM Sung-soo

Born in 1961 and mastered in film production at Dongguk University after earning a bachelor degree in English Literature at Sejong University. Actor Jung Woo-sung, known as Kim’s persona, starred in more than half of Kim’s filmographies starting from 1993 that includes Beat (1997), City of the Rising Sun (1998), Musa-The Warrior (2001) and Asura: The City of Madness (2016).

Credit

Producer Han Jae-duk
Screenplay Kim Sung-soo
Cinematographer Lee Mo-gae
Editor Kim Sang-bum, Kim Jae-bum
Music Lee Jae-jin
Production Design Jang Geun-yeong
Cast Jung Woo-sung, Hwang Jung-min, Ju Ji-hoon, Kwak Do-won
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