Master (2016)

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

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.

fast-pacedsuspensefulcerebraltensestylishcat-and-mouseedgygritty

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)

Trailer

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