Cruel Winter Blues
7.4 /10 1 Votes7.4
Director Lee Jung-beom Music director Kim Jun-seok Duration Country South Korea | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama Screenplay Lee Jung-beom Writer Jeong-beom Lee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 9, 2006 (2006-11-09) Cast Sol Kyung-Gu (Jae-Moon Shim), Mun-hee Na , Jo Han-Sun (Moon Chi-guk)Similar movies Lee Jung-beom directed Cruel Winter Blues and The Man from Nowhere | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cruel Winter Blues (Hangul: 열혈남아; RR: Yeol-hyeol-nam-a; lit. "A Hot-blooded Man") is a 2006 South Korean film written and directed by Lee Jeong-beom.
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Mis-marketed as a gangster action movie, reviewers called it an intense family drama about motherhood, as a strong, self-sacrificing mother has no choice but to endure the hardships of having a hoodlum son.
Synopsis
A mob hitter, Jae-mun (Sol Kyung-gu) is the seasoned veteran of a mob family. He decides to go after rival mobster Dae-sik, the man who killed his boss and childhood friend a few years earlier. He takes Chi-guk with him as his partner in the assassination. Although a physically imposing black belt in taekwondo, Chi-guk (Jo Han-sun) is a soft-spoken newcomer to gang life, who is quietly offended by Jae-mun's arbitrary and random acts of cruelty and rudeness against him and others. Together, they travel to Dae-sik's hometown, a remote rural village called Bulgyo in South Jeolla Province.
While waiting for an opportunity to perform the hit, Jae-mun coincidentally befriends Dae-sik's mother Jeon-sim (Na Moon-hee) and spends some time with her. She comes to lovingly treat him as another son, and Jae-mun begins to feel conflicted. A tragic plot develops, culminating in a bloody showdown between Jae-mun and Dae-sik.
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