My Wife Is a Gangster

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Movie
German title My Wife Is a Gangster
Original title Jopog manura
Country of production South Korea
original language Korean
Publishing year 2001
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Cho Jin-gyu
script Kang Hyo-jin ,
Kim Moon-sung
production Lee Sun-yeol
camera Jeon Jo-myeong
cut Park Gok-ji
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My Wife Is a Gangster ( kor. 조폭 마누라, Jopog manura ) is a South Korean action film with martial arts elements by director Cho Jin-gyu from 2001. The production marks the prelude to a commercially successful film series with My Wife Is a Gangster 2 (2003) and KillerLady (2006) found two successors.

With over five million moviegoers, My Wife Is a Gangster is one of the most successful films of the year in his home country.

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The 26-year-old Cha Eun-jin is a "living legend" in the underworld of South Korea, as she managed as a woman to establish herself in a male-dominated gangster syndicate. The vice-boss known as the “ Mantis ” is considered dominant and relentless; She usually decides disputes with her blade-like scissors . The men in her organization therefore treat her with due respect and obedience.

One day Eun-jin finds her older sister, who is suffering from cancer , and from whom she was separated in an orphanage during childhood. When they meet again, Yu-jin, who is dying, expresses the desire to witness Cha's wedding and the possible birth of a child, although her sister has so far shown no interest in the male sex. Desperate, Cha turns to her people to find a suitable bridegroom.

A willing partner is found in the lovable 35-year-old employee Kang Su-il, who has never had much luck with acquaintances in the past. Cha initially hides her gangster life from her sex-hungry husband, which he succeeds. Living together is difficult, as the self-confident Cha gives up her gangster existence only with reluctance and also vehemently rejects caresses. In order to comply with her sister's request, however, she still gets involved with her husband. She eventually becomes pregnant - unfortunately at this point the beloved Yu-jin succumbs to her cancer.

Meanwhile, the rival great white sharks are pushing into the territory of the local syndicate, of which Cha is a member. A bloody struggle for supremacy seems inevitable. At a different time, Cha reveals herself to her clumsy and intimidated husband as the leader. Deprived of her sister, Cha first tries to take on the role of a housewife and mother-to-be, but gradually the harsh gangster life catches up with her. The fighter faces an opposing group almost single-handedly. She succumbs and is injured, after which she miscarries . At the end of the film, Kang takes revenge on the White Wolves by visiting those responsible and rather unintentionally setting a fire. Over 60 people die in the resulting chaos. In the last scene of the film, Kang, as a gang member, stands by his Cha in an argument with another group.

Reviews

Blickpunkt: Film wrote that the film was a “glossy crime comedy .” The film magazine VideoWoche ruled that the gangster romance would be based on “modern American crime comedies a la a matter of nerves ”. The action scenes and fight choreography could also withstand "any upscale genre comparison".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Review on amazon.de