KillerLady
| Movie | |
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| German title | KillerLady |
| Original title | Jopog manura 3 |
| Country of production | South Korea , Hong Kong |
| original language | Korean , Cantonese |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Cho Jin-gyu |
| camera | Baek Dong-hyeon |
| cut | Park Gok-ji |
| occupation | |
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KillerLady ( kor. 조폭 마누라 3, international title: My Wife Is a Gangster 3 ) is a Korean-Chinese action comedy with slapstick and martial arts elements by director Cho Jin-gyu from 2006. The production is based on My Wife Is a Gangster (2001) and My Wife Is a Gangster 2 (2003) the third part of a commercially successful film series, the content of which has only rudimentary references to its predecessors. Lead actress Shu Qi replaces Shin Eun-kyung from the previous parts.
action
In present-day Hong Kong there are repeated hostilities between two rival triad gangs . The bald and unscrupulous Jwa Guk Choong, member of the Black Dragons , uses this to secretly usurp the leadership of his own criminal organization. The shrewd tactician first hires a nameless contract killer to get rid of the aging head of the organization. He then makes it look as if Aryong Lim, daughter of the rival triad boss of the Hwabaekryun gang , carried out the assassination attempt . His plan initially works. The widow and the bereaved want satisfaction. As the new leader of the Black Dragons , Jwa is supposed to avenge the death of his godfather. A gang war with the opposing syndicate is imminent. Lim, the worried father of the accused and most powerful opponent of the murdered man, fears from now on for the safety of the attractive daughter. Aryong is supposed to go abroad for a certain period of time. The battle-hardened woman decides to go to neighboring South Korea to meet a long-time business friend of her father's, the head of a friendly organization.
In Seoul she is placed under the supervision of the charismatic petty criminal Ki-chul and his two henchmen. Ki-chul should take care of the guest from Hong Kong and at the same time guarantee their safety. Since the three Koreans do not speak Cantonese, however, they hire the shy translator Yon-hi, who soon causes a lot of confusion with deliberate translation errors. Aryong is immediately exposed to the constant power of Ki-chul, who underestimates the skills of the petite woman. At some point he notices that his guardian, despite her delicate appearance, is quite capable of defending himself. The mood of the three small doors suddenly turns into pure fear. At the same time, Yon-hi gains self-confidence as only she can communicate with the foreigner. Aryong pursues her own interests, namely the search for her Korean mother. She receives support from Ki-chul, whom she previously willingly helped in a dispute about supremacy within the local syndicate. At some point, Ki-chul and his helpers find Aryong's mother, although no proper contact is made. In the midst of all this, despite the language barrier, a tender love affair between Ki-chul and Aryong sprouts.
The events in Hong Kong are staggered. The black dragons are becoming more and more ruthless under Jwa. A gang war rages and Lim, Aryong's father, is seriously injured in an assassination attempt. Jwa sends his dreaded contract killer to Seoul, where she soon meets Aryong, who liquidates the black-clad assassin and helpers after a short fight.
Back in Hong Kong, Aryong visits her father, who succumbs to his injuries shortly after their arrival. The new leader of the Hwabaekryun group swears vengeance and almost single-handedly executes those responsible for the intrigue, including Jwa. At the end of the film, Ki-chul travels to the former crown colony after his beloved, although he doesn't know how Aryong is feeling. In the last scene of the film, the two find each other.
backgrounds
The first contribution in this series, which was also directed by Cho Jin-gyu, was one of the most successful films of 2001 in Korea with over five million viewers. The two stragglers, however, were less successful.
KillerLady , whose production cost was estimated at nine million US dollars, launched on December 28, 2006 in the movie theaters of South Korea. The film saw over 1.4 million viewers.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the "striving funny action comedy" suffers from the exchange of the leading actress and also "lacks charm and speed". At most, the “language confusion between the guest from Hong Kong and the Korean hosts, which causes some discrepancies”, is “amusing”.
Web links
- Killerlady in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. imdb.com , accessed December 4, 2008.
- ↑ cf. Film entry on koreanmovie.com ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 4, 2008.
- ↑ KillerLady. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
