Description: Top 10 South Korean Action films Nowhere to Hide (1999) Shiri (1999) My Wife Is a Gangster (2001) A Bittersweet Life (2005) The City of Violence (2006) The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) The Man from Nowhere (2010) The Thieves (2012) The Suspect (2013) Veteran (2015)
Also check out the The Last Stand with Swazzenneggar I have no idea how they did not make the list, so I guess Old Boy and Train to Busan are so amazing they transcend the list :)
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Nowhere to Hide
( 1999 )
Detective Woo is on the trail of the mysterious gangster Sungmin, a master of disguise who always manages to elude his pursuers. Eventually, the cop tracks down and confronts the master-criminal in the suburbs of a coal-mining town.
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Shiri
( 1999 )
South Korean agents Ryu and Lee are tracking a female assassin from North Korea who has mysteriously disappeared. With new killings and the theft of a deadly bomb, time is running out to catch her.
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My Wife Is a Gangster
( 2001 )
The story of how Eun-jin (Eun-kyung Shin) became a legend in the South Korean underworld by defeating an army of gangsters.
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A Bittersweet Life
( 2005 )
Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn't follow his boss's orders.
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The City of Violence
( 2006 )
Tae-su, a detective fighting organized crime, returns to his hometown for his high school friend Wang-jae's funeral. At the funeral, he meets his old friends Pil-ho, Dong-hwan and Seok-hwan and they reminisce. Suspecting something fishy about Wang-jae's death, Tae-su and Seok-hwan start investigating it each in his own way. Both of their investigations lead to a land development project that Pil-ho is directing and the two embark on a difficult battle.
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The Good the Bad the Weird
( 2008 )
The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.
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The Man from Nowhere
( 2010 )
A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.
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The Thieves
( 2012 )
After a heist in South Korea, a gang of 5+1 fly to Hong Kong to look into a heist, in a Macau casino, of a $30M diamond, planned by someone unreliable. He brings in HK thieves as well. Can anyone be trusted?
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The Suspect
( 2013 )
Betrayed and on the run, a North Korean agent tries to uncover the volatile secrets hidden inside the eyeglasses of a dead man.
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Veteran
( 2015 )
A detective hunts down a young and successful man.
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