We’ve got an exclusive look at the trailer for the forthcoming South Korean thriller, The Man From Nowhere, before it rolls out to other sites next week. If you’re up to date with your cult and world cinema knowledge you’ll know that South Korean films and talent are in shockingly rude health.
The Man From Nowhere has been called “Taken meets Oldboy” – which is intriguing, to say the least. Directed by Jeong-beom Lee (Cruel Winter Blues) it stars Bin Won, who last put in a storming performance in Bong Joon-Ho’s superb Mother (read our review here).
Synopsis:
Scarred by traumatic events resulting from his past, former special agent Tae-shik (Bin Won) lives in solitude running a pawnshop in a rundown neighbourhood. His only contact with the world is through his customers and his next-door neighbours, a young girl named So-mi (Sae-ron Kim) and her mother, an exotic club dancer and drug addict. Neglected by her mother and shunned by the kids at school, So-mi gradually forms a bond of friendship with the loner Tae-shik.
But one day, So-mi and her mother disappear. When it becomes apparent that mobsters connected to So-mi’s mother’s drug dealing have kidnapped them, Tae-shik is forced to leave his private sanctuary and to go out into the world in search of his one and only friend. In a bid to ensure So-mi’s safety, Tae-shik agrees to perform a one-off job for the gangsters holding the girl. The job turns out to be a set-up that makes him the target of both a rival gang and of an intense police manhunt. On the run from both sides of the law, and risking him life every step of the way, Tae-shik moves ever closer to discovering So-mi’s whereabouts, but in doing so, he also risks revealing the hidden secrets of his past…
Starring Korean heartthrob Bin Won (Brotherhood; Mother) and newcomer Sae-ron Kim (A Brand New Life), The Man From Nowhere is a “slick, stylish and gut wrenching” (Twitch) thriller that begins with a bang and hurtles to a killer climax that will leave action fans baying for more.