Polski opis

Produkcja: Korea Południowa
Gatunek: Akcja / Dramat Historyczny / Mystery
Reżyseria: Myung-se Lee
Scenariusz: Hae-jyung Lee, Myung-se Lee
Muzyka: Sung-woo Jo
Zdjęcia: Ki-seok Hwang
Ograniczenia wiekowe: 12+

Opis:
Lee Myung-se powraca po 6 letniej przerwie z nowym filmem akcji. Tym razem fabuła przeniesie nas w czasy dynastii Chosun, gdzie tajna grupa spiskowców planuje zamach stanu. Do ich zlikwidowania zostaje stworzona specjalna jednostka policji.
Prawa do dystrybucji tego filmu w Japonii zostały sprzedane za rekordową sumę 5 milionów dolarów.
hollywood-no-more.com

Obsada:
Ji-won Ha .... Namsoon
Sung-kee Ahn .... Detective Ahn
Dong-won Kang .... Sad Eyes
Young-chang Song .... Minister of Defence

 English description

Country: South Korea
Genre: Martial/Drama/History/Mystery
Directed by: Myung-se Lee
Writing credit Hae-jyung Lee, Myung-se Lee
Music: Sung-woo Jo
Cinematography: Ki-seok Hwang
Certification: 12+

Description:
Director Lee Myung-se's latest movie, THE DUELIST, is a whirl of movement, a ballet of bloodshed and a candy-colored carnival of clashing characters but it is most definitely not an action movie: it's a romance.
The story is simplicity itself: Namsoon is a young cop in the Joseon Dynasty whose precinct winds up unraveling a knotty counterfeiting case that turns out to be a political plot to destabilize Korea's economy. During the course of her duties, she crosses paths with Sad Eyes, a King of the ampires-looking henchman for the baddies. He barely says a single word in the entire movie, but gazing out from behind his bangs like an animal peering out through the bars in his cage; he becomes the movie's emotional center. Anyone who's attuned to motion picture cliches will know that Namsoon and Sad Eyes will fall for each other, but they're on opposite sides of the law and everything will end in tragedy. But Lee Myung-se embraces cliches because they give him a place to stand while he deconstructs the world. He likes to pick them up and bang them against the wall until their rust, barnacles, and familiarity falls off like dust and the kernel of what makes them resonate is exposed.
Director Lee likes to show action, not consequences, and THE DUELIST forces the viewer to re-evaluate how they watch movies. Traditional scenes of action and romance aren't given the time and weight we're used to, scenes begin and end both faster and slower than we expect, what catches Director Lee's eye is how people move and what that says about their souls, not how cool it is to show a badass with a sword. His presence hovers over this movie like a deity, and the further you can wriggle into his head the greater the reward. He's impatient with finicky narrative details and hurtles over them at full speed, leaving half-awake viewers shaking their heads and dazedly eating his dust. He's as much a character in THE DUELIST as Namsoon and Sad Eyes, and for viewers who like to start from a familiar point, he's the bad guy. There's not a convention of moviemaking, from how to shoot a love scene to how a plot unfolds, that he doesn't question and undermine.
kaijushakedown.com

Cast:
Ji-won Ha .... Namsoon
Sung-kee Ahn .... Detective Ahn
Dong-won Kang .... Sad Eyes
Young-chang Song .... Minister of Defence