SOUTH KOREA: Yasu (The Beast aka Running Wild). 2005

Director: Kim Seong-soo
Stars: Kwon Sang-woo, Yoo Ji-tae, Son Byeong-ho, Eom Ji-won
Release date: Sth Korea - 1 Dec 2005
Genre: Action/ Crime
Length: 124 mins

Even though the film is studded with contemporary hearththobs, it received an over 18 classification, therefore making the likley teenage girl audience shut out from seeing the film. So they feel that this dispells any notion that it was a vapid attempt at creating just another shallow action film. The director was upset at the rating & felt it was imposed because of the depiction of corrupt politicians & injust social policies, not for the actual violence portrayed. The ambigious ending also apparently solidifies the lack of a clear resolution giving it a more realistic approach for creating discussion among the Korean youth about their govt.

Synopsis
In "Running Wild", the cop's younger brother served a prison term during which he came to know a big boss, who later emerges as the paragon of evil, and a character who directly squares off with Jang Do-young. The brother got away with a piece of evidence that could put the boss back in prison, but he was brutally killed by his minions on the street because of this evidence.

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