As you may know from reading this blog, I am a fan of Korean food. In addition, I love Korean movies – the romantic ones, the comedies, the dramas, and especially the gangster ones. Korean gangsters, from this film at least, deserve a special little corner of hell reserved for pedophiles, mass murders and the generally more common asshat. They are not just bad, they are real scum. I just got through watching the Man from Nowhere, a film that resembled Léon very much. Except they left the building. A man scarred from his past befriends a young girl. Her idiot, junkie mother steals a great deal of heroin from two really bad brothers. They use little kids as a delivery system for their drug empire and when they are of no more use, harvest their organs for blackmarket donors. Like I said, special place in hell.

Unforunately, when they kidnap the girl and her mother as payback, they did not comprehend the revenge they brought upon themselves. The man, played by Won Bin, turns out to be your typical dark-knight badass. The actress who plays the little girl, Kim Sae-ron, was beyond great and was only 10 or 11 at the time. She very much deserves her Best New Actress award from the Korean Film Awards. This was a great film and I recommend it. I especially liked it because it did not have the typical Korean movie ending that I had come to know and dread. I will not spell it out so as to ruin the film for you.