[HanCinema's Film Review] "Paid in Blood"
By Panos Kotzathanasis | Published on
Gangneung is a city on Korea's east coast that is becoming ever more trendy as a tourist destination. It played host to the ice hockey, curling and skating events during the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and its beaches in particular are a magnet for vacationers in the summer, resulting in a boom in construction of fancy new seaside resorts. First-time director (and Gangneung native) Yoon Young-bin places his narrative exactly in this location, in a crime drama that looks intently like a yakuza film.
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Panos Kotzathanasis
Panos Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer specialising in East Asian Cinema. He is the founder of Asian Film Vault, administrator of Asian Movie Pulse and also writes for Taste of Cinema, Eastern Kicks, China Policy Institute and Filmboy. You can follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Panos Kotzathanasis can be contacted via sinkazama82@gmail.com.