Yakuza and The Family (2021)

Without spoiling anything, both movies humanize gangsters. Despite the fact that the main leads have very reprehensible actions, the movies manage to build empathy for these characters. The movies both show the gritty realities without any glamorization.

Without spoiling anything, both movies humanize gangsters. Despite the fact that the main leads have very reprehensible actions, the movies manage to build empathy for these characters. The movies both show the gritty realities without any glamorization.

Kang Bok Gu is a tough guy and a K-1 Fighter. Bok Gu is a character who is dynamic in nature and grew up in a foster home. He falls in love with a woman whom he should not love. It was because of the woman, his emotionally-wounded brother fell off from the rooftop and became a nursing case. So, his love is forbidden and inevitably tragic.
The woman is Cha Eun Seok, who is a TV talent and movie actress. It was not that she jilted his brother on purpose, but upon a basis of misunderstanding, his hatred toward Cha Eun Seok grows more and more burning.
By becoming Cha Eun Seok's private bodyguard, Bok Gu keeps concretely practicing his revenge upon her. He only desires 'to bring his brother's woman to her knees. He is gradually taking Cha Eun Seok to destruction while he feels his love toward her growing deeper and deeper in his heart.
Bok Gu is a cold guy character without any special concern for women. The martial art of hand-to-hand fighting was just kind of his escape he chose from the shock of a spinster's death whom he loved from a distance.

A Ryong, a daughter of a giant Mafia group in Hong Kong, is wrongfully accused of killing the boss of Black Dragon, the biggest rival and is threatened to leave the country. Missing her mother, who had to leave the family for some reason, so deadly, she insists going to Korea, where her mother might be now until things get settled.

Arriving Korea, she is guided by Gi Chul, who is given a mission to protect her by his boss, but it's not easy for them to get harmonized. Meanwhile, an assassin named Yang Be is sent to Korea to kill A Ryong and there seems to be no choice for Gi Chul but to take her to his hometown disguising that he's got a wife. What will happen to this Chinese gangster wife?

The main characters are both ex-convict and ex-yakuza who just wants to have a normal life after their long conviction. It shows their hopeful moments and struggles in the new society.

Without spoiling anything, both movies humanize gangsters. Despite the fact that the main leads have very reprehensible actions, the movies manage to build empathy for these characters. The movies both show the gritty realities without any glamorization.

Kim Hyuk lives a fast life as a high-ranking mobster in the port city of Busan, South Korea. His closest friend is fellow mobster Lee Young Choon. Even though Kim Hyuk seems to be on top of the world, he is haunted by the memory of leaving behind his younger brother, Kim Chul, and mother as they attempted to flee into South Korea from North Korea. Kim Hyuk's mother was beaten to death, and Kim Chul was imprisoned after they were caught by North Korean authorities.

Kim Hyuk then travels to Thailand with new gang recruit Jung Tae Min for a meeting with Thai gangsters. The meeting turns out to be a set-up, planned in part by Jung Tae Min. Kim Hyuk is able to shoot his way out of the meeting, but he is later caught by the Thai police and imprisoned. When good friend Lee Young Choon hears of what happened to Kim Hyuk in Thailand, he goes to the Thai gang's holdout in Pusan to kill their boss. During the shootout, Jung Tae Min is shot in the leg.

Three years later, Kim Hyuk is finally released from prison and travels back to Busan. He finds his close friend Lee Young Choon washing cars now and has a limp leg. Jung Tae Min, the man that betrayed him, has climbed up the mob ranks and is now a feared crime boss. Furthermore, Kim Hyuk's younger brother Kim Chul has arrived in Busan and works for the Busan Police Department. Meanwhile, Kim Chul keeps close tabs on Jung Tae Min as he attempts to take down their gang.

When Jung Tae Min attempts to take out Kim Hyuk's younger brother, Kim Hyuk throws himself back into the gang world to exact revenge.

Without spoiling anything, both movies humanize gangsters. Despite the fact that the main leads have very reprehensible actions, the movies manage to build empathy for these characters. The movies both show the gritty realities without any glamorization.

The film shows Chan Ho Nam , Chicken Chiu and their friends being recruited by Uncle Bee and joining the "Hung Hing" triad.

Young and Dangerous tells the story of Chan Ho Nam, "Chicken" Chiu , Tai Tin Yee , Pao Pan and his brother Chow Pan during their inclusion into the "Hung Hing" Society. The focus is on internal squabbling within the triad, spearheaded by "Ugly Kwan". Based on a popular comic book series named "Teddy Boy", the film contributed a lot to the public image of triads and was condemned by certain quarters as glorifying secret triad societies. However, it was immensely popular in Hong Kong and spun a long list of sequels and spin-offs.

Former gangster Tae Shik is released from prison and heads back to his hometown to live in a small restaurant with a woman. Attempting to leave his past behind, he takes a job in a garage and tries to keep away from the local gangs, most of whom still live in fear of his brutal reputation. When a local politician wants to knock down his adoptive mom's restaurant to build a new shopping mall, Tae Shik struggles to avoid returning to a life of violence.

Yi Hwan is a former professional baseball player. He was involved in fixing games and lost everything. Gang boss Sang Ha runs a money lending business and a gambling location. He makes Yi Hwan work for him. Meanwhile, Yi Hwan falls for bar owner Yeon Soo.

Without spoiling anything, both movies humanize gangsters. Despite the fact that the main leads have very reprehensible actions, the movies manage to build empathy for these characters. The movies both show the gritty realities without any glamorization.