Everyone~ Hello!! Have you ever seen a noir film in Korea? Do you know what film noir genre is? There are so many films in the noir genre in Korea. Today, we will take a closer look at the contents of the noir genre.

This word, which can also be called 'noir' or 'noir' , is a French word meaning 'black', and it was introduced to France after World War II in the 1940s and 1950s.   Among Hollywood films, it was a B-grade film made with a relatively low budget, and it was a term referring to crime and thrillers with a dark atmosphere. It can be seen as referring to a dark and tense suspense movie, right?~! In fact, this characteristic atmosphere better describes noir than the genre itself.

The reason why the word 'noir' came to be widely used by us was in the mid-1980s when Hong Kong noir, such as films directed by Oh Woo-sam and Chow Yun-fat, such as 〈The Hero Is Born〉 and 〈The Concubine, Twin Heroes〉, came into Korea in earnest.

📌 The Scoundrel: World of Bad Guys [Korean Noir Movie]

"Don't trust people. You have to trust the situation, the situation."

🔎 Cast: Seol Gyeong-gu, Im Si-wan, Kim Hee-won

🔎 Released: 2017

Cho Hyeon-soo, who plays Si-wan, a police officer, devises a plan to infiltrate a criminal organization led by Go Byeong-cheol, who plays Lee Kyung-young, as team leader Cheon In-sook orders him to help his mother with a kidney transplant. Hyeon-soo launders his identity and enters the prison where Han Jae-ho, who plays Seol Kyung-gu, a subordinate of Go Byeong-cheol, is imprisoned.

Jae-ho, who is aiming for the number one person in a criminal organization, and Hyeon-soo, an ambitious newcomer who is not afraid of anything in the world, meet in prison and are attracted to each other and build a strong bond. After being released from prison, while fighting for power together, their hidden ambitions are revealed little by little, and their relationship begins to shake as they learn new things about each other.

The Scoundrel deals with the undercover genre, but even within it, it focuses more on relationships such as trust, trust, and betrayal.

📌 My Name [Korean Noir Drama]

"You can become a monster, I will kill you."

🔎 Cast: Han So-hee, Park Hee-soon, Ahn Bo-hyun

🔎 Release: 2021

My Name is a Netflix series depicting the harsh truth and revenge that Ji-woo, the protagonist, infiltrates the police under a new name, who joins an organization to find the criminal who killed her father.

One day, seeing his father brutally murdered by someone unknown in front of his house, Ji-woo vowed to find the culprit who killed his father and kill him himself. Ji-woo visits 'Choi Mu-jin', the boss of the crime syndicate to which his father belongs, and becomes a member of the notorious drug gang led by him. Ji-woo, who obtained a new identity and infiltrated as a spy for the police under the direction of Choi Moo-jin, faced the harsh crime world and the truth, and ultimately portrayed her revenge.

If you like this kind of action, criminal world, and noir atmosphere, I recommend you to watch these two works!

(Source: Naver Knowledge Encyclopedia, Namu Wiki)