The 1976 Kung-Fu movie Hand of Death is important for a number of reasons. Not only does it contain early performances from action movie legends Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung but it was written and directed by Wu Yu Sheng better known to Western audiences as John Woo.
Tae-Sik Cha (Bin Won) is the titular ‘Man from Nowhere’ – an ex special forces agent haunted by his past, eking out an existence running a pawn shop in a run down South Korean slum.
Already billed as Taken meets Oldboy, The Man From Nowhere is the second feature from Jeong-beom Lee (Cruel Winter Blues), the writer-director hailed as Korea’s answer to Takeshi Kitano (Zatoichi; Sonatine; Boiling Point).
