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Tough as Iron

Tough as Iron

Action/Adventure, Drama | Korean | 108 minutes

Company

CJ ENM


Cast & Crew

Director

Kwon-tae Ahn

Producer

Seon-hee Baek

Writer

Kwon-tae Ahn

Cast

A-in Yoo, Hae-sook Kim


Trailer

youtube.com/watch?v=xNHtlFMVAwU


Synopsis

Gang-cheol (YOO A-in) is a legendary street fighter in Busan who cleaned up his act to care for his sick mother, Soony (KIM Hae-sook). Things are going well for him, and he’s happy in a budding relationship with Su-ji, vacationing in the seaside town.

As their relationship grows, Gang-cheol is dragged into the criminal underworld when he sees Busan gangsters Sang-gon and Hwi-gon re-staging the accidental death of a Yakuza mobster as an accident and an old friend, Jong-su, gives him up to the Busan gang.

Knowing he’s desperate for money for his mother's operation, Sang-gon proposes that Gang-cheol works for him. Gang-cheol refuses, but when Jong-su gives the deed to Gang-cheol's house to Sang-gon as collateral for a private loan, Gang-cheol is left with no choice, but to bite the bullet.


Completion Year

2013


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