The San Diego Asian Film Fest came to a rowdy end with a sold-out screening of West 32nd, a Korean-American gangster potboiler from festival favorite Michael Kang. Billed as the West Coast premiere, it was West 32nd's third major screening after a Tribeca debut and Pusan International Film Festival showing (2007).
Director Kang, who won the Best Narrative Feature two years ago at SDAFF for The Motel, sets West 32nd in the rain-slicked streets of New York's Koreatown, and its upscale, private "room-salon" clubs. When the manager of one of these mob-affiliated host-clubs is slain – supposedly by a 14-year-old gunman – ambitious young lawyer John Kim (John Cho) takes the case pro bono to further his firm's Korean ties. The case leads him to the accused' s sister (played by Grace Park), and a volatile gang underboss (newcomer Jun Kim).
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West 32nd* No he encontrado referencias a una edición coreana del DVD, y siendo del 2007... si alguien tiene info de si hay, y si está doblada, o lleva subs., porque el ripeo es del DVD USA que salió en el 2009, no sé si estará en proyecto el lanzamiento coreano...
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