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Nowhere To Hide
2001
NOWHERE TO HIDE, the sixth feature from Korean New Wave writer-director Lee Myung-Se (GAGMAN) is an arty police action film jam-packed with style and attitude. Fans of Asian directors Takeshi "Beat" Kitano and John Woo will recognize the iconographic character of Detective Woo (Park Joong-Hoon), a slouching, thuggish homicide .. Read more
| Starring | Joong-Hoon Park, Sung-Ki Ahn, Dong-Kun Jang, Ji-Woo Choi |
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| Director | Myung-Se Lee |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Nowhere To Hide
NOWHERE TO HIDE, the sixth feature from Korean New Wave writer-director Lee Myung-Se (GAGMAN) is an arty police action film jam-packed with style and attitude. Fans of Asian directors Takeshi "Beat" Kitano and John Woo will recognize the iconographic character of Detective Woo (Park Joong-Hoon), a slouching, thuggish homicide cop in South Korea's port city of Inchon. Woo smiles like a mischievous child, but he carries a baseball bat in his car, and leads a stooge-like squad of cops brandishing iron nightsticks. Along with his straitlaced partner, Kim (Jang Dong-Kun), Woo embarks on a sleepless, months-long hunt for the brutal killer who murdered a drug kingpin on the city's centralized monument, 40 Steps. Woo and his gangster-like men violently clash with suspects in colorful freeze frames and slow-motion shots, accompanied by a pumped-up rock score. After being defeated in a slapstick dance-like fight, a drug runner leads Woo to a primary suspect's femme fatale girlfriend, Juyon (Choi Ji-Woo). The detective then begins an infuriating game of watch and wait. Full of visual panache and humor, Lee's stylish thriller climaxes in a glorious rain-drenched mano a mano between the brutally tenacious Woo and his elusive prey.
| Starring | Joong-Hoon Park, Sung-Ki Ahn, Dong-Kun Jang, Ji-Woo Choi |
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| Director | Myung-Se Lee |
| Studio | SONY DADC |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Korean |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 2001 To Rent: DVD: 26 Dec 2001 |
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"...An accomplished action thriller....[Park] radiates a coiled energy born from years of tough graft and hard knocks -- a performance of soulful intensity..."
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entertaining
A patchy but entertaining good cops vs the bad guys where the ‘good’ cops and not so good and the bad guys are pretty bad. The main cop gives a great ... read more »
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prison may be only hiding place
Classic style cop movie shot in arty fashion using slow motion and stills as well as some monochrome sequences. It panders to fans of martial arts movies as it ... read more »
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Great action film with style
The producer borrows different film styles and the fighting scenes are spectacular. The tired cop just cannot keep up with the killer. It is fantastically well ... read more »
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Thunder Galore
If this film is anything to go by, it certainly rains a lot in Seoul, but the cops certainly ain't wet when it comes to doling out the punishment. The ... read more »
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NOWHERE TO HIDE, the sixth feature from Korean New Wave writer-director Lee Myung-Se (GAGMAN) is an arty police action film jam-packed with style and attitude. Fans of Asian directors Takeshi "Beat" Kitano and John Woo will recognize the iconographic character of Detective Woo (Park Joong-Hoon), a ...
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