Nameless Gangster (2012)

Original title

범죄와의 전쟁

Directed by

Yoon Jong-bin

Genre

gangster film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

2h 14m

Rated

19

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 189 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A customs officer dives into the Busan underworld during the 1980s and 1990s. He builds a criminal empire alongside a young gangster as government crackdowns intensify.

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What happens

Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (Korean: 범죄와의 전쟁: 나쁜놈들 전성시대; lit. 'War on Crime: The Golden Age of the Bad Guys') is a 2012 South Korean gangster film directed by Yoon Jong-bin starring Choi Min-sik and Ha Jung-woo. The film is set in the 1980s and ’90s in Busan when corruption and crime was so rampant that the government declared war on it in 1990. Time praised the film, calling it "the Korean mob film Martin Scorsese would be proud of." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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