04/03/2015 7pm
Museum of the Moving Image
35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria
Dir. Yoon Jong-bin. 2014, 137 mins. With Ha Jung-woo, Kang Dong-won, Lee Kyoung-young, Lee Sung-min, Ma Dongseok, Cho Jin-woong, Yoon Ji-hye. Half kimchi epic, half spaghetti western, Kundo is a wild ride in the twilight days of the Joseon Dynasty: it’s 1859 in the Korean kingdom, when a gang of colorful bandits, or “Kundo”, decides to stand up against the tyranny of the wealthy and fight for the poor and the oppressed. The sky’s the limit for the seemingly invincible band of honorable thieves whose mission of righteous retribution takes a dramatic turn when they accept butcher Dolmuchi into their ranks. For the meat cleaver wielder, it’s not only about justice, it’s personal, and he won’t stop until he takes the life of the psychopathic nobleman who killed his loved ones.
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