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He who was a criminal and a patriot.
Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.
South Korea South Korea
Song Kang-ho Cho Jung-seok Bae Doona Kim So-jin Kim Dae-myung Lee Sung-min Lee Hee-jun Jo Woo-jin Yoon Je-moon Song Young-chang Kim Hae-gon Lee Joong-ok Park Ji-hwan Lee Bong-ryeon Choi Deok-moon Lee Seo-hwan Choi Gwi-hwa Yoo Jae-myung Kim Jong-soo Keijiro Matsushima Kim Jun-han Lee Ho-chul Heo Ga-yoon Park Kyung-hye Kim Hong-pa Lee El Ji Eun-seo Park Chung-hee Kim Dae-jung Kim Seung-bee Kim Joong-hee Jo Seo-yeon Lee Seung-jin Kim Ji-eun Na Kwang-hoon Kang Deok-joong Kim Sung-gon Choi Kwang-je
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