The Drug King (Ma-yak-wang)

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Directed by

Min-ho Woo

Starring (View all)

Kang-ho Song
Lee Doo-sam

Jo Jeong-Seok
Kim In-goo

Doona Bae
Kim Jeong-ah

Kim Dae-Myeong
Lee Doo-hwan

Ji-Eun Kim
Choi Jin Pil's wife

Kyung-hye Park
Lee Kyung-Ja

Hee-jin Lee

Sung-min Lee
Seo Sang-hoon

Written by

Min-ho Woo

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Set in Busan, South Korea during the 1970s, Lee Doo-sam builds an empire as a drug smuggler in the Busan underworld, while public prosecutor Kim In-goo attempts to take down Lee Doo-sam.

Release date: 19 December 2018

Tags: Korean (1), South-Korea (1), 2018 (1)

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"First viewing - July 17th I'm always down for a Song Kang-ho performance, and this is just one in a long line of excellent ones. He plays Lee Doo-sam with so much range and nuance and it's another reminder of what a great actor he is. The rest of the film is a fairly standard '70s drug story, with a couple moments that recalled Breaking Bad for me. It's consistently interesting and kept me engaged, and I'm glad I gave it a chance. I don't know that I'll need to watch it again, but it's worth a "