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  1. Beasts Clawing at Straws: Directed by Kim Yong-hoon. With Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Woo-sung, Bae Sung-woo, Youn Yuh-jung. A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.

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    • Crime, Drama, Thriller
    • Kim Yong-hoon
    • 2020-10-21
  2. User Rating. 67% Profile. Movie: Beasts Clawing At Straws. Revised romanization: Jipuragirado Jabgo Sipeun Jimseungdeul. Hangul: 지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들. Director: Kim Yong-Hoon. Writer: Keisuke Sone (novel), Kim Yong-Hoon. Producer: Kim Ji-Hoon. Cinematographer: Kim Tae-Sung. Release Date: February 19, 2020. Runtime: 108 min. Genre: Mystery / Thriller.

  3. Beasts Clawing at Straws (Korean: 지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들; RR: Jipuragirado Jabgo Sipeun Jibseungdeul, Japanese: 藁にもすがる獣たち Wara ni mo sugaru kemonotachi) is a 2020 South Korean neo-noir black comedy crime thriller film written and directed by Kim Yong-hoon as his debut feature film. [3]

  4. Oct 24, 2020 · To begin, you would be forgiven for imagining that this is the tale of Jung-man (Sung-woo Bae), the struggling restaurant owner who is beast not through choice, but from necessity. In his case, the necessity of caring for his ailing Alzheimer-afflicted mother, whilst also dealing with an absolute a’hole of a boss.

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    The first moments of Beasts Clawing At Straws introduce us to the story’s driving force: a Louis Vuitton bag full of 50,000 Korean Won bills. A tracking shot follows the bag through a bathhouse locker room, until it’s stuffed into a locker. It’s here that we meet Joong-man (played by Bae Sung-Woo)—a failed businessman who works at the bathhouse to ...

    Even if the film doesn’t immediately tell us how, audiences can already surmise all these individuals will lust after that LV bag of money in some way. Reminiscent of Pulp Fiction and its seven narrative sequences, Beasts Clawing At Strawscontains a series of chapters (complete with title cards) that gradually but satisfyingly unravel the connectio...

    On the note of Pulp Fiction—Beasts Clawing At Straws contains other positive similarities to Quentin Tarantino’s movies. Tonally, Beasts offers an appealing blend of violence, goofiness, and darkness reminiscent of many Tarantino flicks. With the industrial port city of Pyeongtaekas an appropriately gritty backdrop, the film’s characters exist in a...

  5. Feb 20, 2020 · At a down-market hotel with an attached bathhouse in the Northwestern harbor city of Pyeongtaek, desk clerk Jung-man (Bae Sung-woo) discovers the money in a locker and moves the bag to a storage...

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  7. Beasts Clawing at Straws. The destinies of numerous lowlifes converge and come crashing down. Rent Beasts Clawing at Straws on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or buy it on...

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    • Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama