The latest film directed by Park Hoon-jung, The Childe, opens today, Friday. The film stars Kim Seon-ho, Kang Tae-ju and Kim Kang-woo.
The Childe is a very entertaining film with a Tarantino-esque feel, very well paced and with great black humour. It tells how Han, a boxer with a Korean father and a Filipino mother, takes part in illegal fights in order to raise money to pay for an expensive operation for his ailing mother. In parallel to this, Han tries to find his father and, when one day he receives a call from Korea from someone who claims to be his father, he embarks on a hellish journey to the country where he will have to fight for his own life, being truly oblivious to everything that is going on around him.
