# Open City (2008)

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**Original title**: *무방비 도시*
**Runtime**: 112 min
**Genres**: Action, Crime
**Directed by**: Lee Sang-gi
**Written by**: Lee Sang-gi
**Starring**: Son Ye-jin, Kim Myung-min, Kim Hae-sook, Kim Joon-bae, Park Sung-woong, Yun Yeong-keol

> *Nothing is what it seems.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You’re a cop closing in on a Yakuza-linked pickpocket ring when you pull Baek Jang-mi from the street. She’s not who she seems. Lee Sang-gi’s neo-noir finds Seoul soaked in neon and doubles.

**Mood tags**: neon-soaked, paranoid, raw

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