Typhoon (颱風) is a 2005 film out of Korea. The movie stars Jang Dong-gun and Lee Jung-jae. Hailed as a blockbuster back in 2005, but ended up flopping quite badly.
The summary from Netflix is pretty good:
Still seething over the killing of his family as they tried to defect from North to South Korea when he was a child, Sin (Dong-Kun Jang) schemes to nuke all of Korea. Now, naval Lt. Gang Se-jong (Jung-Jae Lee) must track Sin down before he carries out his nefarious plan. But while he can't run the risk of having personal feelings interfere with his mission, as Gang learns more about the man he seeks, he begins to feel sympathy for his plight.
The movie has pretty high production value and goes to quite a few countries. The languages in this film also go for broke. From Korean, English, Chinese, Thai, and Russian. However, the story was very very hard to follow, specifically Sin's story after he gets to Thailand and his rise to power there. The movie is in essence a cat and mouse chase triller. You're never quite sure where it will go. If you're looking for the decadence of the mid-2000s Korean film making, you don't want to skip this one.
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