West 32nd

West 32nd (2007)

웨스트 32번가

On one city block lies a whole other world.

When John Kim, an ambitious young lawyer, takes on a pro bono case to exonerate a fourteen-year-old boy from a first degree murder charge, he finds a world he never knew existed in the underbelly of Manhattan - the Korean underworld.

Date of release
2007-05-02
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Thriller, Crime
Director
Michael Kang

Casting

Interesting facts

West 32nd is a 2007 film directed by Michael Kang and written by Edmund Lee of The Village Voice. It stars John Cho, Jun-seong Kim, Grace Park, Jane Kim and Jeong Jun-ho. The plot concerns John Kim, an ambitious young lawyer in New York, who takes on a pro-bono case involving a fourteen-year-old Korean boy accused of murder. Upon investigating the case, he meets Mike Juhn, a street thug from Flushing. The two quickly realize the benefits of working together. A well-written and designed screenplay, West 32nd shows the differences and similarities between the two worlds.

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