Taking advantage of the situation and Ha-Rim's need to suddenly excuse himself with his lady friend, the detective disguises himself as Ha-Rim in order to meet another major player but that too gets unexpected results when the lawman is forced to snort the highly potent drug Leica in order to maintain his cover.ĭespite the setbacks, Won-ho and Rak establish their credibility and obtain the materials necessary to manufacture millions of dollars worth of narcotics in an abandoned factory, with the help of two mute lab-workers, rising through the ranks of the drug trade swiftly, and drawing the attention of Director Brian, heir to the Chief Executive Officership of EWOO Shipping a self-professed man of faith who may also have the answers that Won-ho is looking for. Rak gives the detective some good news in that he was to meet a serious player in the drug market named Ha-Rim (the late Kim Ju-hyuk) the next day, and invites Won-ho to pose as his boss, but things quickly go sideways when Won-ho finds out that Ha-Rim is a complete maniac with a severe hatred of LED bulbs and a fascination with drug-fueled sex romps. Won-ho catches another amazing break immediately, however, when he finds Rak (Ryu Jun-yeol), a curious-looking young man who is pissed that his mother was killed in the lab explosion, and, to add insult to injury, also had his dog half-cooked in the fire. Lee's business dealings, including his involvement in the murder of a high-profile CEO but finds herself as dead as Won-ho's first witness while she's under guard in the hospital. Yeon-ok has a pretty great story to tell about Mr. Lee attempts to blow up one of his own drug labs to cover his tracks, seriously injuring his personal assistant, Oh Yeon-ok (Kim Sung-Ryoung), which turns her into a very willing witness. Lady luck smiles on the detective shortly after, though, when Mr. Won-ho proves in the first few minutes that he's not above stooping to new lows to capture his quarry, when he uses a teenaged junkie as bait a plan that gets the girl killed for being an informant. Lee, in an effort to shut down a massive drug cartel. In this outing, Cho Jin-Woong plays Won-ho, a narcotics detective pursuing the mysterious and very elusive drug lord, Mr. Proving that the Koreans are as adept at remakes as the North Americans, the 2018 film Believer borrows heavily from Johnnie To's Drug War, released just six years earlier. Cast: Cho Jin-Woong, Ryu Jun-Yeol, Kim Sung-Ryoung, Park Hae-Jun
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