Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Korea
• 2003
• 80min

As the last film Chung Chang-wha made in Korea, it shows the most complete Chung Chang-wha style action. This is a story about a cold professional killer who goes back and fortn between the two families who fight over the hidden 1...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Korea
• 2003
• 100m

Bonanza is Chung Chang-wha′s earlier film showing a unique style which integrates film noir and family melodrama together. A wandering old man who had left his family ages ago in search of gold mines finally returns with the gold....

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Korea
• 2003
• 120m

Soo-nam snlists to fight in the Pacific War as a Japanese amt officer and does not understand his colleagues who insist on being Korea and fight against the Japanese. During a battle in Burma, he meets a Burmese woman guerilla sol...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Korea
• 2003
• 95min

Ga Soo-do conspires to take over power with the aid of the little king and in order to rid of his opponent, Song Won is falsely charged with a crime. The only way Song Won can live is to receive the King′s direct pardon in the for...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Korea
• 2003
• 88m

Shin Sung-il, a star actor of youth films, and Twist Kim appear in this youth action film. Duk-tae works at the pub and he revenges on the man who abandoned his older sister by approaching and luring the man′s younger sister, Youn...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Hong Kong
• 2003
• 107min

A martial art competition is held and Cho Ji-ho, who has wanted to live a peaceful life, is sent by his former master to learn better skills at the Sang-Moo Martial Academy under the tutelage of a new master and thus participate i...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Korea
• 2003
• 83min

This is the first film Chung made with the Shaw Brothers. It was the first Hong Kong film to be exported to Europe and the success of the film provided a firm ground for Chung to continue working in Hong Kong. He included some of ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Korea
• 2003
• 94min

In December 1972, Anyang Production imported Five Fingers of Death under the title An Iron Man in the form of joint production. However, it is an irony that the Korean audiences did not know that An Iron Man was the same film whic...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Korea
• 2003
• 85min

In the reign of King Suk Jong, a lone swords man appears at a village tyrannized by the faction of Jang Hee-jae, who is the brother of Jang Hee-bin. The swords man′s secret is slowly revealed through the flash back narrative struc...

Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!

• Hong Kong
• 2003
• 96m

This is Chung Chang-wha′s first film produced after he moved to Golden Harvest. After having produced sword fighting actions at the Shaw Brothers, he returned to his original trademark of modern action. This movie is about a poor ...