Asura: The City of Madness — Trailer

source: cj-entertainment.com, youtube.com

added: Fri, Sep 30th '16

Check out the trailer for the South Korean crime thriller "Asura: The City of Madness," from KIM Sung-su, the Korean director of the 2001 action epic "Musa: The Warrior" and the 2013 epidemic thriller "Flu."

Starring JUNG Woo-sung (The Good, the Bad, the Weird) and HWANG Jung-min (Ode to My Father), the film centers on a Korean detective with a shady past, who is pushed to his limits after being coerced by an anti-corruption task force to build a case against the city's crooked and possibly murderous mayor.

"Asura: The City of Madness" is hitting select U.S. cities in October, opening in Los Angeles on Oct. 7 and in New York on Oct. 14.

synopsis:
Detective Han (Jung Woo-sung), who for years has been secretly doing dirty work for the corrupt mayor Park Sungbae (Hwang Jung-min), is now pressured by a ruthless prosecutor Kim Cha-in (Kwak Do-won) to cooperate in an investigation against the mayor. Feeling trapped, Han persuades his young partner Sunmo (Ju Ji-hoon) to take over his work for the mayor, but things start to get tangled in unpredictable ways. As things are getting worse, only the most evil survives in this dog-eat-dog world.

directed by KIM Sung-su

starring JUNG Woo-sung, HWANG Jung-min, JU Ji-hoon, KWAK Do-won

release date October 7, 2016 (LA), October 14, 2016 (expands)