Korean Film Review

16 The Merciless (불한당: 나쁜 놈들의 세상)


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#crime #action #Byun Sung-hyun #Seol Kyung-gu #Yim Si-wan #2017 #recorded in July, 2021

This is a story about the loyalty and betrayal between an inmate leader and an undercover cop, who teams up to prosecute a gang.

Prior to its local release, the film has been pre-sold to 85 countries including France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, Australia, India, Taiwan, the Philippines and Singapore at the 2017 Hong Kong Film Market. A Japanese film distributor called the work ‘the best crime film from Korea in the past several years.’

The relationship between the two main characters and the emotions they show is the man focus of this movie. The director himself described this as a queer romance.

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