Synopsis
Rough Cut (영화는 영화다, 2008) is a Korean crime drama worth watching online on iFILM. Two men crave each other's lives: a gangster who wants to act, and a movie star who wants to throw one real punch.
Gang-pae (So Ji-sub) is a mob boss's enforcer who secretly dreams of the screen. Su-ta (Kang Ji-hwan) is a pampered action star whose on-set brawls look too choreographed. After Su-ta puts a co-star in the hospital, no actor will work with him and the production stalls. So he hires an actual criminal to play opposite him — on one condition: every blow connects for real. With each take the wall between the role and the man gets thinner.
This is Jang Hoon's directing debut, written by Kim Ki-duk, and it's a bruising, physical study of performance turning into truth. Made for viewers who like their Korean genre cinema grimy and unsettled, right down to the ending. Stream Rough Cut (2008) online on iFILM.
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