Gangster High

Gangster High

2006 · 100 min · KO · 6.7 (40 votes)
Dir. Park Ki-hyung · Starring Jang Hee-jin, Jung Kyung-ho, Kim So-yeon, Kim Ye-ryeong, Cho Jin-woong, Kim Hye-seong
ActionCrime

Sang-ho is an ordinary high school student. His dream is to enter the military academy under the influence of his father who is an army colonel. As entering high school, he became friends with Jae-gu, Chang-bae, Kyung-chul, Hong-kyu and Sang-sik. They grouped a soccer team called 'Tiger', building up friendship by playing soccer. Sang-ho and his friends ran into group of fight with seniors, these incidents made everybody in school to misunderstand them as they were serious group of gangster. When Sang-ho gets becomes close with a girl whose boyfriend is a boss of another school's gangster group, things are going worse.

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This film feels like a raw, unvarnished look at the pressures of adolescence colliding with the brutal realities of street life. It's a tense, often violent ride through loyalty and the desperate search for belonging in a world that demands toughness.

tenseviolentbroodingmelancholicpropulsivegritty realismKorean crime dramacoming-of-agefriendshiployaltyviolencemasculinity
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