Member mark187 Posted June 20, 2012 Member Share Posted June 20, 2012 can anyone recommend some more South Korean titles, while not necessarily having to be gunplay oriented films, at least have some slick/classy gunplay similar to films like Shiri, A Bittersweet Life, The Good The Bad The Weird, The Man From Nowhere, A Better Tomorrow remake, and Hindsight? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted June 20, 2012 Moderator Share Posted June 20, 2012 Interesting request, purely on the fact that it's so difficult to answer. Part of the reason Korean movies tend to be so violent is because of the countries very strict gun laws, trying to obtain a gun in Korea is extremely difficult. Most of their movies tend to reflect this, so instead of gun fights, you usually have characters going at each other with knives, hammers, axes, and generally anything else they can get their hands on. Outside of the movies you've listed, I'm actually struggling to think of a single one which features enough gunplay to actually warrant recommending them on that factor alone....although basing them just on their merits as movies, I'd have no hesitation to recommend 'Secret Reunion', 'No Mercy', & 'I Saw the Devil'. In all three movies though you can count the number of shots fired on two hands (or even one for that matter). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member QueMuchita Posted June 20, 2012 Member Share Posted June 20, 2012 Yeah, it is very hard to think of many Korean movies with gun play, the only other one I can think of is PUZZLE but even then, I don't really think it falls into the category of films you are referring to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mark187 Posted December 19, 2014 Author Member Share Posted December 19, 2014 I'll go ahead and add The Thieves and The Berlin File to the list. just ordered A Company Man in addition to No Tears for the Dead, hopefully they'll deliver too! I had seen Kim Jee-Woon's 'I Saw the Devil' a while back, not a bad revenge thriller, but definitely not an action film. Kim's best film is still A Bittersweet Life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ToryK Posted December 19, 2014 Member Share Posted December 19, 2014 Just saw The Berlin File the other day. Yeah, that's a good recommendation. I wasn't really into A Company Man though. 2009: Lost Memories might be a good one to check out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member yojimbo Posted December 19, 2014 Member Share Posted December 19, 2014 A Company Man has lots of gun action. 2099 Lost Memories wasn't all that good. The video montage in the beginning showing an alternate future still under Japanese control and supposed historical events was the best part of the movie. Otherwise, it was pretty boring. The movie was a big deal at the time since it was a co-productions between a Korean and Japanese company. For action and guns you might want to look into some military themed movie. Like Taeguki: The Brotherhood, 71: Into the Fire, And even thinking about war movies. Those are the only two that I remember worth mentioning out of recent movies I've seen. As One Armed Boxer mentioned about the lack of guns in Korea. That is one reason I really have to suspend my belief big time whenever they put out a movie about people using all sorts of guns and what not. Gangsters going it each other with knives, bats is more realistic and likely in Korea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted December 22, 2014 Moderator Share Posted December 22, 2014 I wasn't really into A Company Man though. A Company Man has lots of gun action. I have to agree with ToryK that 'A Company Man' fell a long way short of its potential, mainly due to a shoddy script not really making the most of a pretty unique concept. There's a dedicated thread here - http://www.kungfucinema.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18752 & I posted my own review of the movie here - http://koreanfilmfestivalinaustralia.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/review-company-man-2012.html For action and guns you might want to look into some military themed movie. Like Taeguki: The Brotherhood, 71: Into the Fire, And even thinking about war movies. Those are the only two that I remember worth mentioning out of recent movies I've seen. The recently released movie 'No Tears for the Dead' features some pretty good gun action, particularly a mid-movie shootout which is one of the best action sequences I've seen put on film for a long time. I posted a review of this one here - http://www.cityonfire.com/no-tears-for-the-dead-2014-review/ Dedicated thread here - http://www.kungfucinema.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21618 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member D1 Ma Posted January 6, 2015 Member Share Posted January 6, 2015 No Tears for the Dead. The Tube (2003) has one of the best gunfights ever filmed (IMO) - the airport shootout. The rest of the movie is not good, though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mark187 Posted January 6, 2015 Author Member Share Posted January 6, 2015 watched both No Tears for the Dead and A Company Man last month. the former did it for me (although not as good as The Man From Nowhere, and I expected more great action from the finale, but that middle scene was great) but the latter fell short (a couple cool parts tho). Tube I saw a long time ago, and like you said, it wasn't very good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kami Posted January 17, 2015 Member Share Posted January 17, 2015 THE SUSPECT should be a treat for you, the same goes for COMMITMENT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member xianzai Posted January 18, 2015 Member Share Posted January 18, 2015 Give the movie Guns & Talks a try. nm8vJg0uO-8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mark187 Posted October 30, 2018 Author Member Share Posted October 30, 2018 Time to update the list, The Villainess was great! Two period pieces Assassination and The Age of Shadows were not bad. Hopefully the Korean remake of Drug War, Believer, can be added to the list, I’m gonna try finding the Blu-ray later today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kami Posted October 31, 2018 Member Share Posted October 31, 2018 The Jin-Roh-Remake, Illang, also has some fantastic shootouts. It's director Kim Ji-woon just has a knack for action as seen in Bittersweet Life, The Last Stand and Age Of Shadows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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