West 32nd (2007)

Original title

웨스트 32번가

Directed by

Michael Kang

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

South Korea, United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

15

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young lawyer in New York takes on a case for a Korean teenager accused of murder. He gets involved with a local street thug and learns about the city's Korean underworld.

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What happens

West 32nd (Korean: 웨스트 32번가) is a 2007 film directed by Michael Kang and written by Edmund Lee of The Village Voice. It stars John Cho, Jun-seong Kim, Grace Park, Jane Kim and Jeong Jun-ho. The plot concerns John Kim (John Cho), an ambitious young lawyer in New York, who takes on a pro-bono case involving a fourteen-year-old Korean boy accused of murder. Upon investigating the case, he meets Mike Juhn (Jun Sung Kim), a street thug from Flushing. The two quickly realize the benefits of working together. A well-written and designed screenplay, West 32nd shows the differences and similarities between the two worlds. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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