1999 · crime · thriller · korean
Nowhere to Hide
Directed by Lee Myung-se1h 48m1999
Detective Woo is on the trail of the mysterious gangster Sungmin, a master of disguise who always manages to elude his pursuers. Eventually, the cop tracks down and confronts the master-criminal in the suburbs of a coal-mining town.
Our read: Nowhere to Hide (1999) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive crime · thriller · korean entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, breathless, extreme crime / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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