A Wacky Switch

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Movie: A Wacky Switch
Revised romanization: Nadooya Kanda
Hangul: 나두야 간다
Director: Jung Yeon-Won
Writer: Park Kye-Ok, Lee Jae-Gon
Producer: Lee Dong-Kwon
Cinematographer: Hwang Seo-Sik
Release Date: June 25, 2005
Runtime: 105 min
Genre: Comedy
Production Budget: US$ 3M
Distributor: Lotte Entertainment
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

Plot

Dong-Hwa is a complete loser, whose first novel called 'I met Kafka' brought the publishing company bankruptcy. To bring home the bacon, he tries to drive a taxi but only ends up running over someone. One day Dong-Hwa is offered a job to do ghostwriting for a CEO named Man-Chul, who turns out to be the ringleader of the biggest criminal syndicate in Korea. Dong-Hwa soon finds himself perfectly at ease in the mob, while Man-Chul starts learning about the other part of the world.

Cast



Jung Joon-Ho	Son Chang-Min	Jung So-Young	Kwon Yong-Woon	Geum Bo-Ra
Lee Dong-Hwa	Yun Man-Chul	Yeon-Hee	supermarket owner	doctor

Additional Cast Members:

Jeon Mi-Sun - In-Wook
Seo Dong-Soo - Dae-Suk
Kang Sung-Pil - Young-Dal
Bang Soo-Hyung - Young-Dal's subordinate 1
Yoon Won-Suk - Young-Dal's subordinate 3
Lee Joon-Hyuk - Soo-Hyun (Dong-Hwa's son)
Choi Jae-Hwan - gangster in town
Seong Woo-Jin - faked injury man 1
Jang Tae-Seong - faked injury man 2
Shin Hyun-Tak - faked injury man 3
Kong Yoo-Seok - investigator 3
Choi Chang-Kyun - Il-Ho (Dong-Hwa's subordinate 1)
Seo Beom-Sik - Director Cha
Choi Jong-Hoon - book good-for-nothing
Han Chul-Woo - taxi passenger
Sung Nak-Kyung - contract police officer
Park Sang-Hyuk - General Manager Kim

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LKB Jun 05 2020 2:01 am Random detail, editing folks: this was released, as the poster here shows, in 2004, not 2005. I only noticed bc there was a discrepancy here and on MDL/hancinema and I was baffled at the writer having 3 films and a drama in one year (2 and a drama is still a whole lot, of course). :)

del Aug 25 2018 10:36 am While watching this mildly amusing film I often got the feeling that Son Chang-min and Jung Joon-ho were in different movies - the former was so intense and almost tragic, while the latter was beating his usual shtick to death. If only they'd got a better actor to play the writer, someone like Yu Hae-jin or Lee Moon-sik or... frankly almost anyone would have been better than Jung Joon-ho, whose popularity in the noughties is one of the greatest mysteries of Korean cinema.

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