El imperio de las sombras

Seoul streets slick with winter rain, 1928. Shoes crunch on broken glass. A paper lantern collapses in an alley’s dim glow. Fugitive couriers slip ink-stained maps beneath floorboards. Silk-shadowed figures trade bullets for secrets in cafés that aren’t cafés. A Korean noir chase film pulsed through Korean New Wave muscle.

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Kim Jee-woon directed El imperio de las sombras in 2016. See Kim Jee-woon's full filmography, where to start with Kim Jee-woon, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kim Jee-woon.

El imperio de las sombras was released in 2016 (KO original-language production), with a runtime of 140 minutes.