Asura: The City of Madness
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Hangul	아수라
Hanja	阿修羅
RR	Asura
MR	Asura
Directed by	Kim Sung-su
Written by	Kim Sung-su
Produced by	Han Jae-deok Kang Hyun Kim Jong-min
Starring	Jung Woo-sung Hwang Jung-min Ju Ji-hoon Kwak Do-won Jung Man-sik
Cinematography	Lee Mo-gae
Edited by	Kim Sang-bum Kim Jae-bum[1]
Music by	Lee Jae-jin
Production company	Sanai Pictures
Distributed by	CJ Entertainment
Release dates	12 September 2016 (2016-09-12) (Toronto) 28 September 2016 (2016-09-28) (South Korea)
Running time	132 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	US$18.3 million[2][3]

Asura: The City of Madness (Korean:아수라;RR:Asura) is a 2016 South Koreanneo-noiractioncrime film^[4] directed byKim Sung-su.^[5][6][7] The title,Asura, refers to demigods in Indian mythology who are consumed by passion and perpetually fighting each other.^[8] The film revolves around Han Do-kyung, a shady cop, who becomes caught between internal affairs and the city's corrupt mayor. StarringJung Woo-sung,Hwang Jung-min,Ju Ji-hoon,Kwak Do-won andJung Man-sik, it released theatrically on 28 September 2016 in South Korea.

Homicide detective Han Do-kyung (Jung Woo-sung) receives money in exchange for taking care of behind-the-scenes work for corrupt Mayor Park Sung-bae (Hwang Jung-min). Han Do-kyung would do anything to make money in order to pay for the hospital bills of his wife, a terminal cancer patient. Seizing his weakness, prosecutors Kim Cha-in (Kwak Do-won) and Do Chang-hak (Jung Man-sik) threaten him and use him to investigate Park Sung-bae for corruption and crimes. Prosecutors and Park Sung-bae pressure Han Do-kyung for their own interests and purposes. Meanwhile, Moon Seon-mo, (Ju Ji-hoon) a junior detective who sees Han as an older brother, follows in his footsteps and leaves the police force to work for the corrupt Mayor Park Sung-bae. As events unfold, Han Do-kyung's life becomes like the eye of a typhoon.

• Jung Woo-sung as Han Do-kyung
• Hwang Jung-min as Park Sung-bae
• Ju Ji-hoon as Moon Seon-mo
• Kwak Do-won as Kim Cha-in
• Jung Man-sik as Do Chang-hak
• Kim Won-hae as Junkie
• Kim Jong-soo as Eun Chung-ho
• Kim Hae-gon as Tae Byung-jo
• Yoon Ji-hye as Cha Seung-mi
• Oh Yeon-ah as Jung Yoon-hee
• Kim Soo-jin as Female councilor
• Anupam Tripathi as Indian worker

• Yoon Je-moon as Chief Hwang
• Park Jeong-hak as Inspector Park

• Asura: The City of Madness atIMDb
• Asura: The City of Madness at theKorean Movie Database(in Korean)
• Asura: The City of Madness atHanCinema

• 2016 films
• 2016 crime action films
• 2010s Korean-language films
• Film noir
• South Korean police films
• Films about corruption
• CJ Entertainment films
• South Korean crime action films
• South Korean neo-noir films
• 2010s South Korean films
• 2010s police films

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