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Hangul | 마스터 |
Revised Romanization | Maseuteo |
Directed by | Cho Ui-seok |
Screenplay by | Cho Ui-seok Kim Hyun-duk |
Starring | Lee Byung-hun Gang Dong-won Kim Woo-bin Uhm Ji-won Oh Dal-su Jin Kyung |
Cinematography | Yoo Eok Kim Jung-woo |
Edited by | Shin Min-kyung |
Music by | Dalpalan Jang Yeong-gyu |
Production companies | Movie House Zip Cinema |
Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
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Running time | 143 minutes |
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Language | Korean |
Box office | US$50.5 million[1] |
Master (Korean: 마스터; RR: Maseuteo, also stylized as MA$TER) is a South Korean action crime film directed by Cho Ui-seok. Written jointly by Cho Ui-seok and Kim Hyun-duk, it stars Lee Byung-hun, Gang Dong-won and Kim Woo-bin in the lead roles. The narrative centers around the manhunt for a conman launched by South Korea's financial crime unit after he absconds with the money and assumes a new identity, causing a cop to team up with the conman's mastermind partner in order to crack the case involving a nationwide financial fraud leads to the Southeast Asian haven for scam artists, thieves, and criminals: Metro Manila.
The film opened theatrically in South Korea on 21 December 2016, and received more than 7 million admissions nationwide.[2] It grossed more than $48 million at the South Korean box office.[3][4]