NOWHERE TO HIDE

Detective Woo is on the trail of the mysterious gangster Sungmin, a master of disguise. Although Woo manages to find Jugo, the gangster’s lover, Sungmin himself continues to elude his pursuers. Eventually, the cop tracks down and confronts the master-criminal in the suburbs of a coal-mining town.

In the late 1990s, an adrenalized wave of South Korean genre cinema exploded onto western screens. This manhunt procedural from Lee Myung-se was among the most stylistically inventive, an eye-popping thriller that marries film noir to Hong Kong action for a woozy fever dream of unadulterated pulp.