2014 · thriller · crime · korean
A Hard Day
Directed by Kim Seong-hun1h 51m2014
After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.
Our read: A Hard Day (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · crime · korean entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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