Dying or Live (2003) [N/A]
Featuring:
Seung-Hyeon Kim, Jin-yeong Kwak, Nam-hyeon Park
Written by:
Du-yeong Kim
Beom-shik Lee
Directed by:
Du-yeong Kim
Release Date:
March 7, 2003
Original Title:
주글래 살래
Alternate Titles:
Jugeulrae salrae
Live or Die
Genres:
Action | Comedy
Production Countries:
South Korea
Ratings / Certifications:
KR: 18
Runtime: 91
So-ryong is the delivery man of a Chinese restaurant when he falls in love with Jang, a local girl who is forced by a hoodlum into prostitution. Feeling helpless, So-ryong promises to learn kung fu so that he may fight and save Jang from her misery.
First of all, I don't understand why they wanted to film that tragedy, to show that in Korea they have underworld too??? I simply don't see the point in offending everyone with director's or script writer's sexual obsessions. What do they wanted to communicate us? Simply nothing, just show some rubbish about some world we never have seen and wouldn't have much opportunity to see. Mixing up Bruce Lee into all this is just too much to bear it. What kind of film it supposed to be? Soft-porn?, non-sense criminal failure or maybe something else, who knows what sits in heads of some mistakenly-become-directors people. Just hope you won't be exposed to such kind of trash, really it is no fun watching things that are wrong from the beginning. I must believe that it is one such thing that was erratically born in Korea as I believe in this country and its people and look forward to some more films that might be as good as for example "Failan" or "Blue", film about something and showing things in the way one can accept.
