Asian Action Pack [5 Discs]

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 5
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Jeon Do - yeon
       Jang Dong - gun - Masayuki Sakamoto
       Jeong Jae - eun
       Kim Jeong - hak - Det. Kim Yeong-su
       Do Yong - gu - Det. Nam
       Ahn Nae - sang - Det. Lee
       Baek Il - seob
       Kim Yeong - jun
       Baek Chan - gi
       Kim Ju - bong - Song Haeng-gi
       Oh Seung - myeong - Jo's Father
       Park Seung - tae - Jo's Mother
       Ahn Jin - su - Go Hung-shik
       Chang - min Son

• Director:

  Ryu Seung-wan, Kang Woo-Suk, Kang Woo-seok, Lee Si-Myung

• Producer:

  Kim Seong-jae, Kang Woo-Suk, Kang Woo-seok, Jin Chung

• Screenwriter:

  Ryu Seung-wan, Jung Jin-wan, Baek Seung-jae, Chae Yun-seok

• Screen Story:

  Gu Bon-han

• Screenwriter:

  Jeong Yun-seop, Kim Hyeon-jeong

• Screen Story:

  Koo Bon-han

• Screenwriter:

  Chae Yunseok, Lee Si-Myung

• Cinematographer:

  Choi Yeong-hwan, Kim Seong-bok

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Han Jae-gwan

• Composer (Music Score):

  Jo Yeong-wook, Lee Woo-jun, Cho Young-Wook

• Editor:

  Kim Sang-beom, Kim Jae-beom, Gi Im-pyo

• Production Designer:

  Ryu Seong-heui, Choe Byeong-geun

• Art Director:

  Bae Mu-cheol

• Executive Producer:

  Kim Mi-heui, Kang Woo-seok, John Ledford, Mark Williams, Kim Seung-Bum

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Yun Hae-jin, Choi Tae-yeong, Kim Weon-yong

• Choreography:

  Jung Doo-hong

• Fights Choreographer:

  Jeong Du-hong

• Lighting:

  Kim Sung-Gwan

REVIEW:

• Kang Woo-Suk's Gongongeui Jeok (Public Enemy) is a tense and gritty Korean policer laced with dark humor. Entertainingly off-kilter and occasionally silly, it is basically a showdown between a brutally corrupt detective, Kang (Sol Kyung-gu), and an arrogant, wealthy sociopath, Cho Gyu-hwan (Seung-jae Lee). The film, with its raging cop antihero engaged in a ruthless cat-and-mouse with a madman, has been compared to Don Siegel's Dirty Harry, and while the comparison is valid, Gongongeui Jeok's cop is a lot dirtier. While Eastwood's Harry Callahan bent the rules to suit his own sense of justice, Kang breaks rules and heads to satisfy more primal urges. It's clear that if Cho hadn't had the bad luck to run into Kang while fleeing the crime scene and the overconfidence to attack the surly cop, Kang wouldn't even have taken an interest in the case. Seung-jae Lee is coolly effective as the well-groomed coiled snake villain, but he's overshadowed by Sol Kyung-gu's bravura performance as the scruffy, all-nonsense cop. There's never a question of Kang's competence. An amusing sequence shows that when his superiors demand he make an arrest (instead of letting the criminal go, minus his cash), Kang brings someone in quickly, even if it is just the most conveniently available crook in the neighborhood, whom Kang beats into confessing to a crime he's not responsible for. Despite its amusing outrageousness and well-choreographed mayhem, the film never transcends the genre the way Dirty Harry did. It's still pretty much a formula cop drama. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi