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A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city's corrupt mayor.A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city's corrupt mayor.A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city's corrupt mayor.
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- 6 wins & 20 nominations total
Kim Hae-gon
- Tae Byung-Jo
- (as Hae-Gon Kim)
Oh Yeon-ah
- Jung Yoon-Hee
- (as Yeon-a Oh)
Yum Dong-hun
- Father-in-law chairperson
- (as Dong-hun Yum)
Edward Bosco
- Goon
- (English version)
- (voice)
Brett Bradley
- Kim Cha-In
- (English version)
- (voice)
Jalen K. Cassell
- Han Do-Kyung
- (English version)
- (voice)
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10trueflux
Dark gloomy manly muscular film noir
Absolutely corrupted mayor and his slavery police detective together ruining the justice.
This story is sort of the real in Corea. Too many politicians are evil and the rotten police men support them in many ways. They even try to blast the city gas pipeline and policemen never investigate about the fire on the city gas pipeline despite the firemen blamed and ordered to investigate.
This movie is realistic in those ways of Corean lives and so interesting and exciting film noir as well.
The car chasing scenes are some of the best cuts in the years! Even only that car chasing cuts must be able to pay back enough of your time.
Asura is surely the best Corean gangster film in the years!
Absolutely corrupted mayor and his slavery police detective together ruining the justice.
This story is sort of the real in Corea. Too many politicians are evil and the rotten police men support them in many ways. They even try to blast the city gas pipeline and policemen never investigate about the fire on the city gas pipeline despite the firemen blamed and ordered to investigate.
This movie is realistic in those ways of Corean lives and so interesting and exciting film noir as well.
The car chasing scenes are some of the best cuts in the years! Even only that car chasing cuts must be able to pay back enough of your time.
Asura is surely the best Corean gangster film in the years!
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.
The world of Asura is well explained, this is due to the groups and hierarchies that we see during the plot that is involved by the characters
-it's essential to a mafia movie, where the protagonist lives a constant duality that ends up making his morals take a back seat, sometimes focused on his feelings, but even with his experience he proves to be someone out of control and with ambition dependent on the course of his life, Han's complexion is complex and well developed we can be sure that jung woo sung has given himself 100% to the role with every one of his expressions/semblances/rises/ you see him making an effort at all times.
-prefect is ironic but a little predictable, the director gave the character this archetype to give us the feeling of being unpredictable but being able to know what he's up to in the future could have given a little more refinement to his appearances and background, but still Hwang did a decent job that at least makes us see him as an audacious villain
-But the highlight is the final 50% of the film where, incredibly, we see the best of the entire cast. This is once again due to the fate that the direction gave to the conclusion of the film, which demanded acting, expressions, fear, anguish, cowardice, mercy, regret and total mourning in a Tarantino style, but with slightly darker tones of color, but with too much of a wine red counterpoint!
-A phrase that the narrative always leaves at the beginning of the film and goes on until the grand finale is " There will be blood"
-it's essential to a mafia movie, where the protagonist lives a constant duality that ends up making his morals take a back seat, sometimes focused on his feelings, but even with his experience he proves to be someone out of control and with ambition dependent on the course of his life, Han's complexion is complex and well developed we can be sure that jung woo sung has given himself 100% to the role with every one of his expressions/semblances/rises/ you see him making an effort at all times.
-prefect is ironic but a little predictable, the director gave the character this archetype to give us the feeling of being unpredictable but being able to know what he's up to in the future could have given a little more refinement to his appearances and background, but still Hwang did a decent job that at least makes us see him as an audacious villain
-But the highlight is the final 50% of the film where, incredibly, we see the best of the entire cast. This is once again due to the fate that the direction gave to the conclusion of the film, which demanded acting, expressions, fear, anguish, cowardice, mercy, regret and total mourning in a Tarantino style, but with slightly darker tones of color, but with too much of a wine red counterpoint!
-A phrase that the narrative always leaves at the beginning of the film and goes on until the grand finale is " There will be blood"
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.
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.
Asian cinema is on a whole other level in terms of artful violence.
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- Quotes
[last lines]
Han Do-Kyung: I knew this would happen. But... it couldn't be helped.
- Alternate versionsThe version released in UK has a duration of 128 minutes, while the original version has a duration of 132 minutes.
- SoundtracksSatan Your Kingdom Must Come Down (Instrumental)
By Jaejin Lee
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- Also known as
- Asura: The City of Madness
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $175,702
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $21,253
- Oct 9, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $18,300,843
- Runtime
- 2h 16m(136 min)
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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