Ikidomari no Banka: Break Out (1988)
Director: Tôru Murakawa
Writers: Hiroshi Kashiwabara, Kaoru Kurimoto
Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Hiroaki Murakami, Yôko Ishino
1h 51min Action, Drama 30 Jul 1988
How far would you go to recover a cigarette lighter? A pulsing mix of hard-hitting action, wry social commentary, and black humor, director Jang Hang Joon’s Break Out takes a simple premise and spins it into a spiraling film experience. Penniless and slothful Bong Gu (Kim Seung Woo) loses his cheap lighter in the Seoul train station washroom, and it falls
