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Movie: Tazza: The High Rollers (English title)
Revised Romanization: Tajja
Hangul: 타짜
Director: Choi Dong-Hoon
Writer: Choi Dong-Hoon, Huh Young-Man(comic)
Producer: Seung-jae Cha, Min-hee Kim
Cinematography: Young-hwan Choi
Release Date: September 28, 2006 (South Korea)
Runtime: 139 min.
Genre: Drama
Production Budget: US$ 5.5M
Studio: Sidus Pictures
Distributor: CJ Entertainment
Language:South Korea
Country: Korean

Plot

Goni is a man with a problem. More than a problem, really. Goni has an addiction, hard and fast, to gambling in general, and specifically hwatu, an old-as-the-hills Korean card game played with a deck of tiny, flower-blazoned cards. This wouldn’t be such a problem if Goni weren’t so embarrassingly bad at it. Cleaned out of his life savings, Goni steals more from his family and loses that too. What’s a poor kid to do? Well, when this poor kid realizes that he’s just been swindled by an organized ring of cheaters, he sets off on a quest to track them down and beat them at their own game, having first apprenticed himself to a wise old hwatu master. Enter the world of Tazza, a world where the hand is faster than the eye, where deception is the name of the game and where neither friendship nor enmity last forever.

Notes

"Tazza: The High Rollers" is based on Huh Young-Man's popular comic book "Tazza" - about Korea's gambling subculture and its assorted denizen.
The card game featured in the movie is known as "Hwatu" (literally "War of Flowers").
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