Asura: The City of Madness

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Movie: Asura: The City of Madness (English title)
Revised romanization: Asura
Hangul: 아수라
Director: Kim Sung-Su
Writer: Kim Sung-Su
Producer: Kang Hyun, Han Jae-Duk
Cinematographer: Lee Mo-Gae
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Runtime: 132 min.
Genre: Crime / Action
Production Company: Sanai Pictures
Distributor: CJ Entertainment
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Detective Han Do-Kyung's (Jung Woo-Sung) wife has terminal cancer. For his wife, Han Do-Kyung does something he would not otherwise do, but he is caught. Han Do-Kyung tries to arrest Park Sung-Bae (Hwang Jung-Min) while under the pressure of prosecution.

Notes

Filming began September 22, 2015 and finished January 25, 2016.
"The City of Madness" is the fourth film director Kim Sung-Su and actor Jung Woo-Sung has worked together. The other three films are "Beat" (1997), "City of the Rising Sun" (1998) and "Musa the Warrior" (2001).

Cast



Jung Woo-Sung	Hwang Jung-Min	Ju Ji-Hoon	Kwak Do-Won	Jeong Man-Sik
Han Do-Kyung	Park Sung-Bae	Moon Sun-Mo	Kim Cha-In	Do Chang-Hak



Yoon Ji-Hye	Kim Hae-Gon	Kim Won-Hae	Oh Yeon-A	Kim Jong-Soo
Cha Seung-Min	Tae Byung-Jo	Akeo	Jung Yoon-Hee	Eun Choong-Ho

Additional Cast Members:

Yoon Je-Moon - Detective Squad Chief Hwang (cameo)
Park Jung-Hak - Inspector Park (cameo)
Kim Hyun-Bin - Detective Squad Chief Hwang's son
Yoon Dae-Yul - Lee Byung-Chun
Jung Mi-Nam - Ggancha
Choi Byung-Mo - Prosecutor Oh
Hwang Byeng-Gug - Detective Guk
Yoo Jung-Ho - Detective Yoo
Hyun Bong-Sik - Detective Kang
Park Yoo-Mil - Nurse Shin
Yum Dong-Hun - City Vice Chairman
Jung Doo-Kyum - Deputy Mayor
Seo Myung-Chan - chief investigator
Choi Sung-Won - doctor in charge
Park Ji-Hwan - Tae Byung-Jo's male sunglasses entourage
Geum Kwang-San - Kwang-San from Tae Byung-Jo's entourage
Ji Gun-Woo - Park Sung-Bae's entourage Gun-Woo
Kwak Jin-Seok - Park Sung-Bae's entourage Jin-Seok
Mahbub Alam - Bangladesh worker
Han Dong-Wook - Chinese restaurant delivery man
Kim Soo-Jin - councilwoman
Kim Nam-Jin - Eun Choong-Ho's wife
Lee Tae-Hyeong - New Town reporter
Lee Ga-Kyung - foreign affair department female police officer
Lim Yong-Soon - politician on consenting party side
Cha Rae-Hyoung - doctor in charge (voice)
Tripathi Anupam - Indian worker
Cho Joon - Park Deuk-Ryong
Jung Hyung-Suk - Inspector Song

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Awards

2016 (37th) Blue Dragon Film Awards - November 25, 2016
- Best Cinematography & Lighting

Comments

Grace Nov 08 2020 8:06 am planning to watch this after watching dark figure of crime. oh please comment pie if you see my comment. just wanna make sure if you do coz i am not yet registered.

Asura Feb 18 2020 7:10 am 9/10!!!

p/s : i feel bad for the girl (one of the prosecutors)

Ore-sama Mar 21 2019 8:06 am I am thinking of watching this after watching Infinite Challenge special race with those terrific A-list actors!! They are cute and funny guy actually.

wilson Dec 30 2016 12:46 pm this was best crime gangsta movie ever ,the plot so awesome ,the actors was best

Khsu Sep 15 2016 9:24 pm I just watched this today and it was REALLY good. Pretty violent/gorey but still good

Vianey Aug 21 2016 7:50 pm Woahhh~ Daebak

yoz Aug 19 2016 1:21 pm Looks freaking awesomeee!

Meena Jan 09 2016 1:47 pm Ju Ji hoon is the best outstanding handsome excellent actor and my favourite

berceuse Sep 21 2015 9:54 pm LOL I thought the movie was adapted from the anime 'Asura'

fizi Sep 15 2015 7:48 am Great casts. Great movie too... Can't wait... Hwang Jung min is a really talented actor.

Mutlu Sep 12 2015 10:12 am OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG Joo ji hoon oppa, jung min oppa and woo sung oppa the casts is just daebakkk

koi Sep 12 2015 9:22 am Wow. No word for the casts.

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