just finished watching it! a great movie!

 [K-Movie] The Man From Nowhere (2010)

a mysterious pawnshop owner who has secluded himself from the world after having lost his pregnant wife in a tragic accident, cha tae-sik now leads a quiet life. while the socially awkward pawnshop owner tries to live life avoiding as much human contact as possible, his only connection to the rest of the world is a little girl, so-mi, who lives nearby. as so-mi makes her regular visits to bother tae-sik, she becomes the one person in the world that can soften tae-sik’s hardened heart. so-mi’s mother, hyo-jeong, who is a showgirl and heroin addict interferes in a drug dealer’s operation by stealing an important shipment of heroins from a drug trafficking organization and entrusts tae-sik with the product without his knowledge. when the traffickers find out, they kidnap both hyo-jeong and so-mi. mistaking tae-sik for another mule, the brothers that lead the gang—man-sik and jong-sik—promise to release hyo-jeong and so-mi if tae-sik makes a delivery for them. tae-sik makes the decision to face the outside world in order to rescue so-mi. however, the delivery was part of a larger plot to eliminate a rival drug ring leader, mr. oh, and tae-sik is arrested. at the same time, hyo-jeong’s disemboweled body is discovered, and tae-sik realizes that so-mi’s life may also be in danger. he fights off half a dozen detectives and escapes from the police station. now on the run, tae-sik pursues man-sik and jong-sik as tae-sik’s secret past is slowly unveiled. in the process, he discovers that their drug ring operates around kidnapped children. stumbling upon a factory where the brothers have children’s organs removed to accommodate the drugs, tae-sik rescues one child just before surgery and becomes enraged at the prospect so-mi may already be dead. tae-sik prepares for a battle with man-sik and jong-sik, putting his own life at risk…save his one and only friend, and he has “nothing to lose, nothing to compromise.”

Also Known As: “Mi.st.er”, Ahjusshi
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Year: 2010
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Release Name: The Man From Nowhere
Cast: Won Bin, Kim Sae-ron, Kim Tae-hoon, Kim Hee-won, Kim Seong-oh, Lee Jong-pil

although this was won bin’s first action film, he didn’t fail to deliver all of the intricate and detailed fight choreography. i was even more impressed when i learned that won bin completed all of his own stunts and fight scenes, rejecting the director’s offer for a stunt double. the only lacking part i found in this movie was that the english subtitles left out and mistranslated a handful lines in the film, which possibly made the script a bit awkward for non-korean speakers. regardless, the movie was a great film that incorporated intense knife and gun fights with won bin’s and kim sae ron’s captivating performances of the two emotionally complicated outcasts . i’m not much of an enthusiast of bloody action movies, but let’s just say i’ll be returning to watch this movie once more later this week as this movie is a south korea's 2010 blockbuster hit movie~it also makes me cry~