Synopsis
Asura: The City of Madness (아수라, 2016) is a Korean crime action thriller you can watch online on iFILM. In the fictional town of Annam, mayor Park Sung-bae owns everything that matters — the courts, the press, the cops. His attack dog is detective Han Do-kyung, who does the filthiest jobs in exchange for the mayor footing his dying wife's hospital bills.
On one of those jobs Han kills a fellow officer by accident and pins it on a junkie. That mistake hands a relentless prosecutor his leverage: now Han has to secretly record every conversation with the mayor. Caught between two predators, the boss above him and Internal Affairs behind him, the detective sinks deeper with every move he makes. Jung Woo-sung, Hwang Jung-min and Ju Ji-hoon play men who ran out of clean hands a long time ago.
Director Kim Sung-su delivers a brutal, grimy, physically punishing film with no heroes — everyone here is either a predator or prey. Its blood-soaked finale has become something of a genre legend in Korea. It's for fans of pitch-black noir where there's no one to root for and nobody gets off easy. Stream Asura: The City of Madness (2016) online on iFILM.
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