A Dirty Carnival

Korean filmmaker Yoo Ha's action-packed gangster saga has been dubbed the "Asian GODFATHER" for its accomplished melding of the story of a mobster's rise and fall with tightly choreographed fight sequences. Jo In-Seong stars as Kim Byung-Doo, a bright but poor low-level enforcer who seizes an opportunity for advancement with the murder of a troublesome public prosecutor. Yet the seeds for Kim's later downfall are already sown. "Full of swiftly etched, well-developed characters ... elevates the genre to an epic narrative level" - Variety. (2006)