Tough as Iron
- Original title
- Kang-chul-iaka
- AKA
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- Tough as Iron
- Year
- 2013
- Running time
- 108 min.
- Country
- South Korea
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Action. Drama
- Synopsis
- Gang-cheol is a legendary street fighter in Busan, who cleaned up his act to care for his sick mother. Things are going well for him, and he's happy in a budding relationship with Su-ji, vacationing in the seaside town. As their relationship grows, Gang-cheol is dragged into the criminal underworld when he sees Busan gangsters Sang-gon and Hwi-gon re-staging the accidental death of a Yakuza mobster as an accident and an old friend, Jong-su, gives him up to the Busan gang. Knowing he's desperate for money for his mother's operation, Sang-gon proposes that Gang-cheol works for him. Gang-cheol refuses, but when Jong-su gives the deed to Gang-cheol's how to Sang-gon as collateral for a private loan, Gang-cheol is left with no choice, but to bite the bullet.
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