No Tears for the Dead

No Tears for the Dead (Korean: 우는 남자; RR: Uneun Namja; literally Crying Man) is a 2014 South Korean action film written and directed by Lee Jeong-beom. The film revolves around a professional hitman (Jang Dong-gun) who is conflicted about killing his last target (Kim Min-hee).[2][3][4][5][6][7]

No Tears for the Dead
International poster
Directed byLee Jeong-beom
Produced byKim Tae-won
Written byLee Jeong-beom
StarringJang Dong-gun
Kim Min-hee
Music byChoi Yong-rak
CinematographyLee Mo-gae
Edited byNam Na-yeong
Distributed byCJ Entertainment
Release date
  • June 4, 2014 (2014-06-04)
Running time
116 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
English
Box officeUS$4.5 million[1]

Plot

At a restaurant, professional hitman Gon quietly interacts with a little girl sitting alone at her table. He then leaves and makes his way to the warehouse behind the restaurant where a man name named Ha Yun-guk is making a deal with a group of thugs. Gon kills them all and retrieves Yun-guk's laptop. Hearing a sound behind the door, he shoots through it, only to realize it is the little girl who had followed him. The girl dies, traumatizing Gon who later drinks himself into a stupor.

Gon's close friend Chaoz takes him back to their boss. Gon is to go to South Korea to tie up the loose end - the little girl's mother Choi Mo-gyeong, a risk manager at an investment firm.

At Seoul airport, Gon is received by his local contact Byun. As he studies Mo-gyeong's routine, he learns of her visits to her senile mother in a hospital, and watches as she mourns her daughter. Gon feels even more guilty and conflicted about his task.

Mo-gyeong is approached by Detective Park from the financial crimes task force. Park reveals that her supervisor John Lee is heavily suspected to have ties with organized crimes. Yun-guk has somehow gain access to John Lee's accounts for money laundering, and was trying to sell them to the Russian Mob when he got killed. Park ask Mo-gyeong whether her husband left anything that can implicate John Lee.

Meanwhile, as Gon still hasn't completed his assignment, his boss sends Chaoz and the rest of the team to South Korea. They quickly close in on Mo-gyeong's apartment.

In her apartment, Mo-gyeong finds the file in a pen drive. Park's subordinate shoots him and takes the drive away. Immediately after giving the drive to John, he is killed by Byun. The team prepares to kill Mo-gyeong, but Gon warns her with a call, then intervenes and kills several of them. He creates a distraction, allowing her to escape with a promise to reveal the truth about what happened to her daughter. However, she was captured by the team.

Gon He requests Chaoz to let Mo-gyeong go, but the latter declines. Gon then tips off the police about a bomb that goes off quickly and alerts them about another bomb.

Mo-gyeong is taken to the financial building, which is soon surrounded by the cops who believe it will be bombed. Gon then takes out the two teammates one by one in a series of fights and improvised traps.

On the other hand, Mo-gyeong succeeds in preventing money transfer to John Lee's account with the help of her computer. When John ignores Byun's money, the latter stabs him to death. At last, Gon battles Chaoz and both get severely wounded.

Byun discovers Mo-gyeong and severely beats her up. He tries to rape her before she stabs him to death. After a conversation with Chaoz, Gon tells Mo-gyeong she needs to shoot the man coming to kill her since he is the one who killed her daughter.

However, Gon himself arrives and is shot by Mo-gyeong. Chaoz also arrives, snatches the shotgun from Mo-gyeong and tries to shoot her, but a dying Gon requests not to do so. The elevator goes down with a dead Gon's hand held by Chaoz while Mo-gyeong tries to reach out to Gon via radio.

A flashback shows how Gon's mother, who abandoned him in the states and killed herself early on in the film, tells him not to cry as they would have a good life once they move to America. However, Gon continues to cry: both as a kid and an adult.

Cast
  • Jang Dong-gun as Gon
  • Kim Min-hee as Mo-gyeong
  • Brian Tee as Chaoz
  • Kim Hee-won as Department head Byun
  • Jun-seong Kim as John Lee
  • Jeon Bae-soo as Detective Jang
  • Kim Min-jae as Team leader Park
  • Lee Young-lan as Ok-soon
  • Anthony Dilio as Juan
  • Alexander Wraith as Alvaro
  • Rich Ting as Asing
  • Angela Bullock as Emma
  • Kang Ji-woo as Yoo-mi
  • Go Woo-rim as young Gon
  • Kim So-jin as Mi-jin
  • Kim Ji-seong as Gon's mother
  • Park Byung-eun as Ha Yoon-gook
  • Kim Won-beom as Park Won-sang
  • Byun Yo-han as Song Joon-ki
  • Lee Moon-ho as Fat hacker
  • Min Seong-wook as Plainclothes detective
  • Kim Geu-rim as Policewoman
  • Lee Seung-chan as Detective 1
  • Yoo Ok-joo as Middle-aged female housekeeper
  • Kim Kyeong-hee as Cleaning lady
  • Kang Han-na as Kindergarten teacher
  • Kim Hyo-min as John Lee's underling
  • Hwang Sang-kyeong as Byun's underling 1
  • Choi Je-heon as Byun's underling 2
  • Ji Geon-woo as Byun's underling 3
  • Shin Jae-hwan as Byun's underling 4
  • Hyeong-won as Byun's underling 5
  • Shin Seong-il as Byun's underling 6
  • Nam Yeon-woo as Byun's underling 7
  • Park Sang-hun as Byun 's underling 8
  • Jang In-sub as Financial crimes special team member 1
  • Seo Hyeon-woo as Financial crimes special team member 2
  • Lee Kyeong-heon as Financial crimes special team member 3
  • Ahn Jeong-mo as Financial crimes special team member 4
  • Park Ji-yeon as Ventura Holdings team member 1
  • Choi Seung-il as Ventura Holdings team member 2
  • Kang Hyeon-woo as Ventura Holdings team member 3
  • Kim Tae-hoon as Ventura Holdings team member 4
  • Lee Gyoo-hyeong as Ventura Holdings team member 5
  • Son Cheol-min as National Forensic Service employee
  • Joo Yeong-ho as Explosives demolition team leader
  • Yoon Dong-yeong as Explosives demolition team member
  • Kim Moon-hak as Analyst
  • Lee Dong-hwi as Electric vehicle engineer
  • Kim Wan-soo as Control room staff member
  • Jeong Seong-woo as Muscle man
  • Jeon Byeong-gi as Daeban underling
  • Lee Jae-in as Daeban granddaughter
  • Moon Soo-ah as Hong-rim Chinese dress
  • Jeong Soo-jeong as Female reporter
  • Kim Na-hee as Yoo-mi's friend
  • Kim Sung-oh as 112 hotline police voice 1
  • Baek Hyeon-ik as 112 hotline police voice 2
  • Matthew Douma as Slav guard 5

Production

Writer-director Lee Jeong-beom interviewed special forces troops in South Korea and the United States to learn their reality and incorporate it into his screenplay.[2][8]

To prepare for his role, Jang Dong-gun underwent physical training for four months at a film action school in Seoul and combat training in the United States.[9][10][11][12]

Box office

No Tears for the Dead was released in South Korea on June 4, 2014. Despite its star director and actor, the film underperformed at the box office against Hollywood blockbusters X-Men: Days of Future Past and Edge of Tomorrow. It opened at fifth place on the box office, drawing 600,988 admissions.[13][14]

References
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  3. Tae, Sang-joon (30 August 2013). "LEE Jeong-beom's THE MAN FROM NOWHERE Follow-up Confirmed Cast". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
  4. Park, Jin-hai (11 May 2014). "Hallyu stars return to big screen". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2014-05-11.
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  6. Jo, Yeon-kyung (31 May 2014). "Interview: Jang Dong Gun was Glad to Act Opposite Kim Min Hee in Crying Man". enewsWorld. Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
  7. Lee, Eun-sun (12 June 2014). "Jang rejects copycat claims over new film". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  8. Choi, Jin-sil (21 May 2014). "Jang Dong Gun & Kim Min Hee Crying Man release date confirmed for June 4". TenAsia. Archived from the original on 22 May 2014. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
  9. Kim, Hee-eun (29 April 2014). "Jang Dong-gun to star in new thriller". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
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  11. Lee, Sun-min (30 April 2013). "Jang Dong-gun cast in Crying Man". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
  12. Lee, Sun-min (29 August 2013). "Jang becomes a killer". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
  13. Ha, Sung-tae (16 June 2014). "Box Office: May 29 - June 11, 2014". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 2014-06-30.
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