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Seong Gi-hun is down on his luck, having accumulated enormous debts to loan sharks while becoming estranged from his daughter and ex-wife. In a subway station, a well-dressed man invites him to play a game of ddakji for money and offers an opportunity to participate in higher-stakes games. Gi-hun accepts, is sedated, and awakens in a dormitory ...
An angry loan shark has a tendency of getting excessively violent with anyone who doesn't have his money. His mob boss disapproves of his actions, warning him to tone things down or else. As expected, things only get worse.
The film was based on an original script by Martin Rackin. [4] He originally wrote it for producer Louis Edelman at Warner Brothers in 1949. [ 5 ] The project ended up with Lippert Pictures , an independent film company that had enjoyed success with second features as well as occasionally more ambitious productions.
A private loan shark who formerly worked under Tae-ho, and a former Marine. Ryu Soo-young as Lee Doo-young; Tae-ho's left arm who is loyal to him. [12] Lim Hwa-young as Min-ji; Doo-young's wife. Kim Min-jae as Kim Jae-min; A corrupt officer of the Serious Crime Investigation Division Unit 1, and a junior of Kang-yong.
Ji-an is a 21-year-old woman who is enduring many hardships in life, including the need to discharge her mother's huge debts and take care of her deaf grandmother. She was convicted of murdering a loan shark (Lee Kwang-il's father) during her middle school years, and has found a temporary job at the same company as Park Dong-hoon.
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Many of the customers were office clerks and factory hands. The loan fund for these operations came from the proceeds of the numbers racket and was distributed by the top bosses to the lower echelon loan sharks at the rate of 1% or 2% a week. The 1952 B movie Loan Shark, starring George Raft, offers a glimpse of mob payday lending. The ...
[b] Two years later, Gi-hun now lives frugally in a fortified hotel building and has employed Mr. Kim, his former loan shark, and his lackeys to track down the games' recruiter in Seoul. Kim and his associate, Choi Woo-seok, eventually locate the recruiter and watch him offer vagrants bread or a lottery ticket; most choose the ticket, and the ...