Won Bin, Kim Sae-Ron
Movie: The Man From NowhereHangul: 아.저.씨. (= Mister)
Cast
Won Bin 원빈 - Mother, Taegukgi, My Brother, Guns and Talks
Kim Sae-Ron 김새론 - A Brand New Life
Kim Tae-Hoon 김태훈
Kim Hyo-Seo 김효서
Director
Lee Jeong-Beom 이정범 - Cruel Winter Blues
Screenplay: Lee Jeong-Beom 이정범
Producer: Lee Tae-Hun
Production Company: Opus Pictures
Partner: United Pictures
Korea Distributor: CJ Entertainment
International Sales: CJ Entertainment
Genre: Action Drama
Start Filming: Jan 14, 2010
Wrapped up: June 8, 2010
Release Date: Aug 2010
Official Site: www.ajussi2010.co.kr/
Won Bin as Cha Tae-sik
Kim Sae-ron as So-mi
Kim Tae-hoon as narcotics task force team leader
Kim Hyo-seo as Hyo-jeong (So-mi's mom)
Park Seong-taek as private loan company president
Hong So-hee as Yeon-soo
When his only friend, a nine-year old girl is kidnapped by organ traffickers, an ex-special agent comes out of the dark world of his own to save her.
Synopsis
An ex-special agent CHA Tae-sik’s only connection to the rest of the world is a little girl, So-mi, who lives nearby. So-mi’s mother, Hyo-jeong smuggles drugs from a drug trafficking organization and entrusts Tae-sik with the product, without letting him know. When the traffickers find out they kidnap both Hyo-jeong and So-mi.
Mistaking Tae-sik for another mule, the brothers that lead the gang promise to release Hyo-jeong and So-mi if Tae-sik makes a delivery for them. After much consideration, Tae-sik makes the decision to face the outside world in order to rescue So-mi. At the same time, Hyo-jeong’s disemboweled body is discovered, and Tae-sik realizes that So-mi’s life may also be in danger.
In the process, he discovers that their drug ring operates around kidnapped children. Stumbling upon a factory where the brothers have children’s organs removed to accommodate the drugs, Tae-sik rescues one child just before surgery and becomes enraged at the prospect So-mi may already be dead. Tae-sik prepares for a battle with Man-sik and Jong-sik, putting his own life at risk.
Source: CJ Entertainment
Another Synopsis (source from www.cinando.com)
Tae-sik, an ex-special agent, now lives in a slum running a pawnshop. Nobody knows his past. He doesn’t talk to anyone but So-mi, a nine-year-old girl living with a single mom whose job is a stripper at the club. Tae-sik and So-mi don’t talk much but they are the only friends to each other.
One day, So-mi’s mom secretly hordes massive amount of Philopon and deposits it hidden in the camera at Tae-sik’s shop. As mafia finds out who stole their drugs, they come to punish her. At the same time, So-mi cannot be safe.
They come to Tae-sik threatening that Tae-sik should follow their order if he wants to get So-mi and her mom back safe. He first follows the order but it turns out to be the trap. He is arrested by the police after he discovers the dead body of Somi’s mom. Feeling that Somi’s life is at danger too, Tae-sik breaks out the police using his deadly powerful martial art skills.
Now a man who closed his mind against the world because of his past determines to do whatever it takes to save this young girl. As the police and mafia chasing him, Tae-sik has no one but himself to trust.
