Wild Card

A run of murders is committed in Seoul and two detectives are working the case. The trail leads in the end to a gang leader, a man who carries an actual ball and chain in his attacks. The film does not build the investigation as a clever puzzle; it shows the daily work of the police, the waiting and the violence walking about in the street. The account also makes material of the difference between the two detectives: one is trying to keep to the rules while the other has long since run out of patience. Yang Dong-geun and Jung Jin-young appear in Kim Yoo-jin’s hundred and seventeen minute Korean film, completed in 2003.