Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time

Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time
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Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationBeomjoewaui Jeonjaeng
McCune–ReischauerPŏmjoewaŭi Chŏnjaeng
Directed byYoon Jong-bin
Written byYoon Jong-bin
Produced by
  • Park Shin-gyoo
  • Yoo Jeong-hoon
StarringChoi Min-sik
Ha Jung-woo
CinematographyGo Nak-seon
Edited byKim Sang-bum
Kim Jae-bum
Music byJo Yeong-wook
Production
companies
Palette Pictures
Showbox
Distributed byShowbox
Release date
  • February 2, 2012 (2012-02-02)
Running time
133 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
BudgetUS$4 million
Box officeUS$33.6 million[1]

Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (Korean범죄와의 전쟁: 나쁜놈들 전성시대; lit. War on Crime: The Golden Age of the Bad Guys) is a 2012 South Korean gangster film directed by Yoon Jong-bin starring Choi Min-sik and Ha Jung-woo. The film is set in the 1980s and ’90s in Busan when corruption and crime was so rampant that the government declared war on it in 1990.[2]

Time praised the film, calling it "the Korean mob film Martin Scorsese would be proud of."[3]

  1. ^ "Nameless Gangster : Rules of the Time (2012)". www.koreanfilm.or.kr.
  2. ^ Jung, Hyun-mok (17 February 2012). "Controversial director tackles corruption in Nameless Gangster". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on 20 April 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ Templin, Jacob (10 April 2012). "Nameless Gangster: The Korean Mob Film Scorsese Would Be Proud Of". Time. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

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