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Tomb of the River

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Tomb of the River
Hangul
강릉
Revised RomanizationGangneung
Directed byYoon Young-bin
Written byYoon Young-bin
StarringJang Hyuk
Yu Oh-seong
Production
companies
Asciendo
Bon Factory
Joy N Cinema
DayDream Entertainment
Distributed byStudio Santa Claus
Nintendo Entertainment
Release date
  • November 10, 2021 (2021-11-10)
Running time
119 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box officeest. US$2.68 million[1]

Tomb of the River , also known as Paid in Blood [2](Korean강릉; Hanja江陵; RRGangneung) is a 2021 South Korean neo-noir action thriller film directed by Yoon Young-bin, starring Jang Hyuk and Yu Oh-seong. It was released on 10 November 2021.[3][4]

Plot

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Chairman Oh, the leader of a crime gang, plans to construct the biggest resort in Gangneung, with Kim Gil-seok as his loyal underling. Things turn violent when a new upcoming gangster Lee Min-seok sets his sight on the Gangneung resort, and uses all sorts of deceitful means to acquire it.[5]

Cast

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Main

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  • Yu Oh-seong as Kim Gil-seok, loyal underling of Chairman Oh
  • Jang Hyuk as Lee Min-seok, a ruthless gangster from Seoul
  • Park Sung-geun as Cho Bang-hyun, a detective who is also Gil-seok's long time friend
  • Oh Dae-hwan as Kim Hyung-geun, Gil-seok's right-hand man

Supporting

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  • Lee Hyun-kyun as Lee Chong-seop
  • Shin Seung-hwan as Kang Jung-mo, Min-seok's assistant
  • Song Young-kyu as President Shin
  • Kim Jun-bae as Choi Mu Sang
  • Lee Chae-young as Namkoong Eun-seon, Min-seok's partner
  • Han Sun-hwa as Han Bo-ram
  • Kim Se-joon as Chairman Oh
  • Kim Tae-han
  • Jo Hyun-shik
  • Choi Ki-sub

Production

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Principal photography began on October 19, 2020, and filming wrapped up on December 6, 2020.[6]

This marks a reunion between the lead actors Jang Hyuk and Yu Oh-seong after filming the series The Merchant: Gaekju 2015 together in 2015–2016.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "KOFIC, KOBIS (Korean Box Office Information System) The Box office: Korean films of 2021". KOFIC. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  2. ^ "Paid in Blood Viki page".
  3. ^ "유오성X장혁 '강릉', 11월 개봉 확정". September 16, 2021.
  4. ^ "장혁x유오성 '강릉' 11월17일→11월10일로 개봉일 변경".
  5. ^ "장혁·유오성, 영화 '강릉' 호흡". December 10, 2020.
  6. ^ "유오성X장혁, '강릉' 캐스팅…19일 촬영 시작". October 22, 2020.
  7. ^ Cho, Ji-young (November 4, 2021). "[인터뷰④] 유오성 "장혁 '장사의 신' 이후 6년 만에 재회..나이 먹더니 액션 힘들어해"('강릉')" [[Interview ④] Yoo Oh-seong "Reunited after 6 years after Jang Hyuk's 'God of Trade'.. I'm getting older and it's hard to act" ('Gangneung')]. Sports Chosun (in Korean). Retrieved February 6, 2022 – via Naver.
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