Nameless Gangster

Nameless Gangster Rules of the Time Hangul RRBumchoiwaui Junjaeng literally War on Crime The Golden Age of the Bad Guys is a 2012 South Korean gangster film directed by Yoon Jongbin starring Choi Minsik and Ha Jungwoo. The film is set in the 1980s and 90s in Busan when corruption and crime was so rampant that the government declared war on it in 1990.

South Korea,October 1990. Following President Roh Taewoos declaration of a crackdown on organized crime, Busan businessman Choi Ikhyun Choi Minsik is arrested for embezzling billions of won from hotel construction companies, and is also charged with intimidation, kidnapping and assault. Busan public prosecutor Jo Beomseok Kwak Dowon is in charge of the investigation, and especially the murder of hotel owner Heo Samshik Kwon Taewon by mobster Kim Panho Cho Jinwoong, with whom Ikhyun allegedly was connected. Back in March 1982, Choi was a Busan customs officer who, along with colleagues, was already taking bribes and pilfering goods. After discoveringkilograms of hiropon crystal meth in a warehouse one night, he and colleague Mr. Jang Kim Jongsoo approach a friend of Jangs, gangster Choi Hyungbae Ha Jungwoo, to sell it to Japans yakuza, with whom Hyungbae has ties. Ikhyun discovers that the younger Hyungbae is also a member of the same Choi family clan from Gyeongju and the two form a close relationship. Ikhyun leaves his customs job and becomes a fulltime businessman, with Hyungbae taking care of the underworld side and Ikhyun protecting him with his highlevel contacts. In the mid80s the two forcibly take over a nightclub run by Miss Yeo Kim Hyeeun that is on the turf of Panho. Following his humiliation, Panho has the club raided by the police and Hyungbae arrested, though Ikhyun gets Hyungbae released by using the Choi clan connection with Seoul public prosecutor Choi Joodong Kim Eungsoo. In May 1987, Ikhyun and Hyungbae take their business to the next level, formally linking up with Japans yakuza and having a connection with a hotelcasino, the Daedong, that is also on Panhos turf. Panho threatens a gang war with Hyungbae, and Ikhyun is forced to decide where his loyalties and selfsurvival lie.Choi Minsik reportedly put onkilograms for his role and Ha Jungwoo spenthours putting on the fake body tattoos featured in the film. ........

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