Asura

There are 3 types of Korean films: Revenge, Cop, Political. this one starts as the 3rd, turns into the second and gloriously ends on the 1st featuring the whos who of everything. also featuring on of the top cinematographers today, amazing.

I wanna say one thing first, It's the first film that created such a cult boom like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)" among South Korean moviegoers. That is enough value for this film in the South-Korean film industry. I will write down a more detailed review later.

Annam Korea is the backdrop for this noir-esque masterfully shot crime thriller. Caught in a catch 22 of violence and deception, abuse begets abuse in the dog-eat-dog world of Asura: The City of Madness, where corruption is the day to day of cops and politicians.

Asian cinema is on a whole other level in terms of artful violence.

Wake up world, wake up to one of the MASTERS of South Korean crime movies: director and writer Kim Sung-su.

This South Korean crime movie should be INSTANTLY (RE)released in the Western cinemas. This kind of cinema one often simply cant find anymore in the Western movie theatres, but the South Koreans keep churning out these crime masterpieces one after the other! Incredible.

What mastery! What gutwrenching human drama. What heinous, low life characters, yet still so humanlike and true to life. What overwhelming, vicious, over the top violence.

I cant believe this incredible crime drama has only gotten 17 reviews on Imdb, while it is one the very best South Korean crime movies that I have seen lately.

The synopsis doesnt begin to cover the explosion of human viciousness which this movie blasts upon us viewers, especially at the very end. Violence breeds more violence. And human depravity breeds more vicious and heinous backstabbing. Wanna witness this jungle of greed and misery in all it's dark "splendor", then please press play and witness ALL HELL BREAK LOOSE...

This film is far better than what they have explained. If you love film-noir, dark and gripping film, then Do watch it, I'm sure you will love it