Nowhere to Hide

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Overview

Korean maverick auteur Lee Myung-Se directs this wildly exuberant, genre-crunching, police-comedy action flick. Held together with only the barest of plot elements, this film is a gleeful romp through a litany of film styles and references. Following a gangland murder in a popular Seoul shopping area, bumptious, cock-sure detective Woo ( Lee regular Park Joong Hoon) and his marginally more contemplative partner Kim (Jang Dong-Kun) comb the city for the killer (former heartthrob Ahn Sung-Ki). Woo stumbles from one...
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Overview

Korean maverick auteur Lee Myung-Se directs this wildly exuberant, genre-crunching, police-comedy action flick. Held together with only the barest of plot elements, this film is a gleeful romp through a litany of film styles and references. Following a gangland murder in a popular Seoul shopping area, bumptious, cock-sure detective Woo ( Lee regular Park Joong Hoon) and his marginally more contemplative partner Kim (Jang Dong-Kun) comb the city for the killer (former heartthrob Ahn Sung-Ki). Woo stumbles from one jaw-dropping sequence of stylized violence to another until he has his final two-fisted showdown with the killer. Nowhere to Hide was the second-highest-grossing film of 1999 in Korea and an audience favorite at the 1999 Pusan Film Festival and the 2000 Sundance Festival.
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Special Features

Widescreen; Stereo; English, Spanish & French subtitles; Original Korean track; Interactive menus; Scene access; Trailer
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Editorial Reviews

All Movie Guide - Jonathan Crow
Director Lee Myung-Se has always been one of the Korean cinema's more over-the-top filmmakers -- his early works such as Gagman and My Love, My Wife make the work of the Coen brothers seem like gritty realism -- but with this work he explores territory that goes beyond the wink and nod of a Quentin Tarantino potboiler and into the realm of utter self-referentialism. Nowhere to Hide is less of a genre flick than a meta-movie -- a film entirely about film -- featuring references from Seijun Suzuki, Akira Kurosawa, Wong Kar-wai, and John Woo (note the main character's name), along with sundry music videos and television commercials. The crime at the film's outset -- in which the victim is stabbed on a busy public stairwell -- is executed with effervescent aplomb that not only seems to draw straight from Sergei Eisenstein and Alfred Hitchcock but also from the Beatles, thanks to a Fab Four pastiche accompanying the sequence. The film's denouement -- a fist fight between Woo and the bad guy in a sunlit rainstorm -- is equal sequences staged by Sergio Leone and Shinya Tsukamoto. Fortunately, the giddy glee with which Lee handles the medium proves to be infectious; the film is pretty darned entertaining and Park Joong Hoon gives a certain yobbish charm to his role as the man-child bruiser Woo that nicely complements the loopy tone of the film. Nowhere to Hide is a raucous, dizzying work that will overwhelm audiences with sheer visual invention.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 4/17/2001
  • UPC: 806469154120
  • Original Release: 1999

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  • Source: Lions Gate
  • Region Code: 1
  • Presentation: Wide Screen / Stereo
  • Sound: stereo
  • Language: English, Korean
  • Time: 1:40:00
  • Format: DVD
  • Sales rank: 63,393

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Ahn Song-Gi Chang Sung-min
Park Joong-Hoon Detective Woo
Jang Dong-gun Detective Kim
Choe Ji-woo Juyon
Technical Credits
Lee Myung-Sae Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter
Oh Sang-man Art Director
Song Haeng-ki Cinematographer
Jeong Kwang-seok Cinematographer
Jo Seong-woo Score Composer
Go Im-pyo Editor
Kang Wu-seok Executive Producer
Cheong Tae-weon Producer
Yu Dae-hyeon Sound/Sound Designer
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Scene Index

Side #1 --
0. Chapters
1. Opening Titles [4:20]
2. Holiday [3:48]
3. Lighter [3:21]
4. Around Town [2:52]
5. Vaskia [2:30]
6. Fish Head [5:15]
7. Clothesline [3:58]
8. Interrogation [5:08]
9. Gas Station [4:08]
10. Typerwriter [2:34]
11. Break-in [4:59]
12. Apartment [3:57]
13. Stakeout [4:48]
14. Pursuit [3:36]
15. Day 20 [6:16]
16. Barber Shop [2:51]
17. Reflection [2:33]
18. Snow Balls [2:46]
19. Day 40 [3:25]
20. Train Fight [1:22]
21. Pager [9:26]
22. Rain [4:11]
23. The Duel [8:18]
24. End Credits [3:50]
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Menu

Side #1 --
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   Setup
      Subtitles
      Audio Language
   Trailers
      Nowhere to Hide
      Codename: Jaquar
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