Open City

An officer saves the life of a woman getting assaulted. Too bad she was the woman he was supposed to catch. Baek Jang Mi (Son Ye Jin from Shark) is the leader of a Yakuza-backed pickpocket organization in Japan. When she is captured, both Baek Jang Mi and her bodyguard are deported back to their native Korea. There, she opens a tattoo parlor but eventually turns back to crime. This time, she decides that she will start her own pickpocketing ring. This puts her in the line of fire of another gang, and they finally catch up with her one day. When they are assaulting her, the person to save her is detective Jo Dae Young (Kim Myung Min from Six Flying Dragons and A New Leaf). While she is thankful, Baek Jang Mi disappears as soon as she realizes Jo Dae Young is a cop. Later, to advance her plans, she manages to dig up dirt on legendary thief Kang Man Ok (Kim Hae Sook from Saimdang: Light’s Diary and Pinocchio), blackmailing her to help in Baek Jang Mi’s biggest heist yet. Meanwhile, detective Jo Dae Young is handed some police files about an upcoming case, and he realizes that the woman he saved is none other than the thief he has to catch. Now it is a battle of cops and robbers, and both soon realize that no one really has that much room to run in this open city. Written and directed by debutante Lee Sang Ki, Open City released on January 10, 2008. The film reunited stars Son Ye Jin and Kim Hae Sook, who worked together on Summer Scent.