Low Life

You're a small-time hustler scraping by in Seoul's back alleys and then the country's heartbeat starts to crack under decades of upheaval. Your choices narrow with each passing regime. The film settles in the silence between punches, a genre frame dissolving into portrait of a nation weathered from within.

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Im Kwon-taek directed Low Life in 2004. See Im Kwon-taek's full filmography, where to start with Im Kwon-taek, or where to go after you've seen everything by Im Kwon-taek.

Low Life was released in 2004 (KO original-language production), with a runtime of 105 minutes.