AKA: The War Of Flower
Director: Dong-hun Choi
Genre: Comedy / Crime
Runtime: 140mins
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English / Korean (vobsub idx+rar)
IMDB: http://imdb.com/title/tt0875025/
Cast: Seung-woo Cho (Go-ni), Hye-su Kim (Madame Jeong), Yun-shik Baek (Mr. Pyeong)
Plot Synopsis:
Go-Ni loses his entire savings and the money that he stole from his sister in the high stakes card game know as “Hwatu.†Go-Ni figures out shortly after the game that he was swindled and he spends the next 6 months tracking down the person that robbed him of his money.
In the process of his search for the swindler, he encounters Mr. Pyeong, a so called “Tazza†(a professional gambler at the top of his game). Go-Ni soon becomes a pupil of Mr. Pyeong and vows to win 5x times the money that he lost on that fateful day. Go-Ni learns that Mr. Pyeong is one of the three greatest gamblers in the land, the other two being Agwee and One Ear. Go-Ni also learns that the reason why One Ear is known as “One Ear†is that Agwee chopped off his ear for cheating and chopped off his arm for losing. Agwee still has a score to settle with Mr. Pyeong.
While learning the tricks of trade, Go-Ni is introduced to a Madame Jeong by Mr. Pyeong. Madame Jeong has the looks to kill and uses every inch of that to her advantage. After Go-Ni and Madame Jeong start working as a team, they find out that Mr. Pyeong was murdered. Madame Jeong also realizes that she is falling in love with Go-Ni.
Go-Ni now leaves Madame Jeong to track down Agwee and seek revenge. During his pursuit of Agwee, Go-Ni encounters more treacherous characters including a mob boss and the person that originally swindled him out of his savings. He also falls in love with a young woman that works in a bar. What Go-Ni is not aware of is that Agwee is also in pursuit of Go-ni. Agwee is finally able to use Madame Jeong to set up one last deadly game of hwatu with Go-Ni.
