LEE Hae-young’s DOKJEON Wraps with CHO Jin-woong and RYU Jun-yeol
Dec 01, 2017
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by Pierce Conran
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DRUG WAR Remake Features Final Performance by KIM Joo-hyuk
Director LEE Hae-young’s upcoming Dokjeon (Korean title), a remake of Johnnie TO’s Drug War, completed around five months of filming on November 16th. The crime thriller stars CHO Jin-woong, RYU Jun-yeol and the late KIM Joo-hyuk in his final performance.
Dokjeon (a contraction of the Korean words for ‘poison’ and ‘war’) follows a Detective (CHO Jin-woong) who is determined to take down the head of Korea’s largest drug-pushing organization. To do so he engages the help of a drug smuggler (RYU Jun-yeol) within the syndicate.
The original Drug War, the first Mainland Chinese film from famed Hong Kong director Johnnie TO, was released in 2013 and earned over USD 23 million in China. Dokjeon is being produced by Yong Film Inc. (The Handmaiden, LUCK-KEY) and will be released next year by Next Entertainment World.
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