State of Violence

Seoul, post-Olympics. A slammed gate. Seven years was the sentence, but freedom calls louder from a prison van. Escaped convicts take hostages, turning the city into a theater of fear. Korean action cinema found new grit in the '00s.

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Yang Yun-ho directed State of Violence in 2006. See Yang Yun-ho's full filmography, where to start with Yang Yun-ho, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yang Yun-ho.

State of Violence was released in 2006 (KO original-language production), with a runtime of 122 minutes.