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Master (2016)

Master poster
Original title
마스터
Directed by
Cho Ui-seok
Genre
drama film, action film
Country
South Korea
Runtime
2h 23m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 108 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

South Korean financial crime agents hunt a conman who stole millions and vanished. They team up with the conman's former partner to catch him in Metro Manila.

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What happens

Master (Korean: 마스터, also stylized as MA$TER) is a 2016 South Korean action crime film directed by Cho Ui-seok. Written jointly by Cho Ui-seok and Kim Hyun-duk, it stars Lee Byung-hun, Gang Dong-won and Kim Woo-bin in the lead roles. The narrative centers around the manhunt for a conman launched by South Korea's financial crime unit after he absconds with the money and assumes a new identity, causing a cop to team up with the conman's mastermind partner in order to crack the case involving a nationwide financial fraud leads to the Southeast Asian haven for scam artists, thieves, and criminals: Metro Manila. The film opened theatrically in South Korea on 21 December 2016, and received more than 7 million admissions nationwide. It grossed more than $48 million at the South Korean box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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