Tazza: The High Rollers
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- Movie: Tazza: The High Rollers
- Hangul: 타짜
- Revised Romanization: Tajja
- Director: Choi Dong-Hun
- Writer: Choi Dong-Hun, Huh Young-Man (comic)
- Producer: Seung-jae Cha, Min-hee Kim
- Cinematography: Young-hwan Choi
- Release Date: September 28, 2006 (South Korea)
- Runtime: 139 min.
- Production Budget: US$ 5.5M
- Studio: SidusFNH
- Distributor: CJ Entertainment
- Language:South Korea
- Country: Korean
Plot
Goni is a man with a problem. More than a problem, really. Goni has an addiction, hard and fast, to gambling in general, and specifically hwatu, an old-as-the-hills Korean card game played with a deck of tiny, flower-blazoned cards. This wouldn’t be such a problem if Goni weren’t so embarrassingly bad at it. Cleaned out of his life savings, Goni steals more from his family and loses that too. What’s a poor kid to do? Well, when this poor kid realizes that he’s just been swindled by an organized ring of cheaters, he sets off on a quest to track them down and beat them at their own game, having first apprenticed himself to a wise old hwatu master. Enter the world of Tazza, a world where the hand is faster than the eye, where deception is the name of the game and where neither friendship nor enmity last forever.
Notes
- "Tazza: The High Rollers" is based on Heo Young-Man's popular comic book "Tazza" - about Korea's gambling subculture and its assorted denizen.
- The card game featured in the movie is known as "Hwatu" (literally "War of Flowers").
- Related titles:
- Tazza: The High Rollers | Tajja (2006)
- Tazza | Tazza (SBS / 2008)
- Tazza: Revenger (2010)
Cast
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| Cho Seung-Woo | Baek Yun-Shik | Kim Hye-Su | Yu Hae-Jin | Kim Yun-Seok |
| Go-Ni | Pyung Gyung-Jang | Madam Jung | Ko Kwang-Ryeol | Aw-Kwi |
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| Ju Jin-Mo | Kim Sang-Ho | Baek Do-Bin | Kwon Tae-Won | Kim Kyeong-Ik |
| Jjakgwi | Park Mu-Seok | Kwak | Ho-Ku |
Additional Cast Members:
- Lee Su-Kyeong - Hwa-ran
- Kim Jeong-Nan - Se-ran
- Choi Dong-Hun
- Choi Jong-Ryul
- Jo Sang-Geon
- Jeong In-Gi
- Eung-su Kim - Kwak Chul-yong
- Kim Kang-Woo
- Kim Kwang-Kyu
- Lee Jae-Gu
- Lim Jeong-Eun
- Shin Yeong-Jin
- Yun Seol-Hee - Dabang Coffee House worker
- Do Yong-Gu
- Jo Seok-Hyeon (01/06/1973)
- Do Yoon-Joo - swindler's husband
- Hong Gyung-Yun - middle aged Kangnam woman
- Kim Min-Kyu - skateboarder
- Kim Min-Kyung - Go-Ni's mother
- Choi Jae-Sup - Jin-Seop
- Seo Dong-Soo - Yong-Pal
- Park Soo-Young - Go-Ni's uncle
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