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Drama |
| - Director |
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Choe Dong-Hun |
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Jo Seung-Woo, Kim Hye-Soo, Baek Yun-Shik |
| - Certification |
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18 and over |
| - Production Date |
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2006 |
| - Runtime |
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139 minutes |
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Synopsis
Go-Ni labors arduously at a furniture factory until one day, he comes across a "Flower Card" gambling party at the factory. He even takes his recently divorced older sister's compensation money and gambles it all away. After finding out that professional fraudulent gamblers, so called 'slickers,' had organized the game, he begins to ready himself by playing in gambling rings all over the country. He soon meets Mr. Pyeong, a master gambler, and begins training under him. He promises to quit gambling as soon as he wins back 5 times his losings, but as he falls into the charm of gambling, he is unable to keep his word and follows Madam Jeong to continue on with his lustrous games. Then, when Go-Ni hears that his former mentor was murdered, he looks for revenge and seeks out every gambling ring in the country, meeting a number of interesting gamblers along the way.
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View Point
Released in 2006, attracted an estimated 6,830,000 viewers in 11 weeks and ranked 8th in the Korean film industry in 2006. Based on a popular cartoon series, and casting incredibly talented actors, were the movie's greatest selling points as it seduced the interests of all movie-goers. The movie pulled the curiosity of all people from start to finish, as it issued complete nudity from Korea's sexy actress, Kim Hye-Soo, and casted the talented actor of musicals and movie films, Jo Seung-Woo. Through this film, actress Kim Hye-Soo won best actress at the 27th Blue Dragon Awards, and the 14th Chunsa Film Festival. The movie also won best director at the 43rd Paeksang Arts Awards. In 2008, the producer of , Jang Jun-Hwan, is to direct the sequel.
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Photos
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Photos Courtesy of Cine 21
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