Friday, 11 April 2014

Korean drama review #3: City Hunter

Nia’s blog

Today’s review is going to be about the 2011 romantic action drama ‘City Hunter’ This drama is actually based on a Japanese manga written by Tsukasa Hojo.

Plot:

 In the year 1983, there is a bombing incident when the South Korean president is Burma. Due to this incident, two presidential bodyguards Lee Jin Pyo and Park Moo Yul organize a team and are sent to North Korea on the order of five South Korean officials without the knowledge of the president.

  Later the five officials abandon the team due to the president’s disapproval. They plan to erase all evidences of that mission.

The team successfully finishes the mission and when waiting for a submarine in the  river Nampo, the solders are shot dead one by one by their own countrymen.  Park Moo Yul sacrifices his life for Jin Pyo’s. The bullet that killed Moo Yul is now stuck in Jin Pyo arm. Moo Yul tells his last wishes to Jin Pyo and sinks.

Jin Pyo swims back to South Korea and meets Eung Chan and says he would come back for revenge. 

Later Jin Pyo kidnaps Moo Yul’s son and flees to the Triangle. Moo Yul’s son now grow’s up as Poo Chai. 

One day while roaming around the city, he saves a Korean, Bae Shik Joong from thugs. During that day the thugs attack him in his home. When a thug is about to shoot him, his growth mother interrupts and dies. On witnessing this Yoon Sung goes after the thugs only to  step on a landmine buried in his own garden.

His bullets runs out and when the thugs are about to shoot him, Jin Pyo saves him. He also saves him from the land mine during which he loses his leg instead. Jin Pyo later tells the story of Yoon Sung’s original father’s death. Yoon Sung later decides to go to South Korea and take his revenge on the behalf of Jin Pyo. 

He meets Kim Na Na who was his designated driver. 

He later pays her father’s medical bills. He joins the Blue house as PhD holder from MIT and he also meets Na Na as a presidential bodyguard. 
She starts to make errands for him to pay back the medical bills. Yoon Sung starts his revenge with Lee Kyung Wan .He is named as ‘City Hunter’ by the media. Prosecutor Kim Young Joo starts to investigate City Hunter’s case when Lee Kyung Wan is delivered at his office.

 Will Yoon Sung get his revenge? Will Young Joo find out City Hunter’s true identity and arrest him?
       

Music:

The music highlighted the action scenes and the mood of the scene. You cannot ignore the instrumentals in the drama, they are that good.

Personal views:

I loved the drama. I made me want to keep watching it. It was very interesting and left me with no clue of what is going to happen next.

I would give a rating of 10/10 because this drama very interesting.