![]() The flashbacks are helpful to the story, but also shed light on why Tae-Sik is the way he is. We get flashbacks of who he used to be and what he used to do. There's also a group of cops trying to track down the cartel, as they happen across the backstory of Tae-Sik. There's a knife fight towards the end that is, quite frankly, one of the best I've ever seen. With precision, Tae-Sik takes on numerous waves of drug cartel baddies and dispatches them with deadly efficiency. ![]() That doesn't mean the guy doesn't know how to handle himself. He was once a government agent, but after a brutal car accident involving his pregnant wife, he's given it all up. So-Mi's mother gets in trouble with the cartel and they come looking for her. Think of this as an Asian cinema version of 'Man on Fire'. Tae-Sik doesn't want to, but he can't help but become enamored with this energetic young girl. So-Mi's mother is also an addict, so she finds herself without a parent to look after her. She stores her drugs at the pawnshop without Tae-Sik noticing (by putting them in camera bags and other containers and then pawning them). Her mother is working for a drug cartel as a mule. Tae-Sik is a lonely pawnshop owner who befriends a little girl named So-Mi, who occasionally comes into his shop. Relatively new director Jeong-beom Lee makes a splash with 'The Man From Nowhere' starring Bin Won (' Mother') Tae-Sik Cha.
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