| City of Damnation | |||||||||||||||
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| Director: | Kim Dong-won | ||||||||||||||
| Starring: | Jung Joon-ho Jung Woong-in Jung Woon-taek | ||||||||||||||
| Music: | Kim Si-hwan | ||||||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Kim Hyo-jin | ||||||||||||||
| Editing: | Jeong Gwang-jin | ||||||||||||||
| Distributor: | CJ Entertainment | ||||||||||||||
| Runtime: | 121 minutes | ||||||||||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||||||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||||||||||
City of Damnation is a 2009 South Korean action comedy film directed by Kim Dong-won and is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs.[1]
Jang Choon-dong is a traffic officer who aspires to become a homicide detective. After being noticed by his superiors, Choon-dong is assigned to go undercover to infiltrate a gangster network headed by Yang Kwang-seob. Meanwhile, Lee Joong-dae (Jung Woong-in), a member of Kwang-seob's gang, goes undercover himself by joining the police force. Joong-dae tries hard to gain favour with his squad leader and bureau director in an effort to expose Choon-dong's identity, but falls in love with a colleague, Cha Se-rin.
City of Damnation was released in South Korea on 22 January 2009,[2] and was the only Korean film to be released during the Lunar New Year holiday, traditionally a big season for domestic films.[3] On its opening weekend it was ranked third at the box office with 249,720 admissions,[4] and the film's disappointing performance was thought to illustrate a steady decline in the popularity of the gangster comedy genre with local audiences.[5] As of 22 February, City of Damnation had received a total of 1,555,039 admissions nationwide,[6] and as of 1 March had grossed a total of US$7,545,744.[7]