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Crime City (Korean: 범죄도시; RR: Beomjoedosi) is a South Korean crime action film series, starring Ma Dong-seok in the lead role. Each film follows the story of detective Ma Seok-do (played by Ma Dong-seok) hunting down vicious criminals. The first film The Outlaws directed by Kang Yoon-sung, starring Yoon Kye-sang in the villain role was released in 2017. The second, The Roundup, directed by Lee Sang-yong and Son Seok-koo playing the villain role was released in 2022. The production of the third film titled The Roundup: No Way Out, directed by Lee Sang-yong, is currently in progress.

Crime City
Hangul	범죄도시
Hanja	犯罪都市
Revised Romanization	Beomjoedosi
Directed by	Kang Yoon-sung (1) Lee Sang-yong (2, 3)
Screenplay by	Kang Yoon-sung (1) Kim Min-seong (2)
Release date	2017–present
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean

Overview

	The Outlaws (2017)	The Roundup (2022)	The Roundup: No Way Out
Native title	범죄도시	범죄도시2	범죄도시3
Release date	October 3, 2017	May 18, 2022
Director	Kang Yoon-sung	Lee Sang-yong
Writer		Kim Min-seong
Production companies	Hong Film, B.A. Entertainment	Hong film, B.A. Entertainment, Big Punch Pictures
Distributor	Megabox	ABO Entertainment, Megabox	ABO Entertainment
Running time	121 minutes	106 minutes
Box office	US$52.9 million	US$101.11 million

Films

The Outlaws (2017)

The Outlaws follows a turf war that grows between a local gang that runs Garibong-dong in Guro District, Seoul and the Heuksapa gang from Yanbian, The police are called in to attempt to bring peace to the neighborhood. Jang Chen is a bloodthirsty leader of the Chinese mainland gang Black Dragon, who works as a loan shark in a seedy Chinatown area of Seoul. He's backed up by his henchmen Wei Sung-Rak and Yang-Tae. Jang Chen is beyond brutal in his methods to collect money. Ma Suk-Do is a detective in the Chinatown area of Seoul, who along with his Captain Jeon Il-man tries to keep the peace, while two Chinese-Korean gangs dubbed Venom Gang headed by and Ahn Sung-Tae and Cobra Gang headed by Jang-I-Soo as they battle over the turf in the neighborhood.

Jang Chen, along with Sung-Rak and Yang-Tae makes their move to take over Chinatown and destroy the Venom Gang and kill Sung-Tae where they take over Jang-I-Soo's casino. Enraged, Jang-I-Soo attacks the casino. Sung-Rak and Yung-Tae fight with Jang-I-Soo and his henchmen, but are interrupted by Ma, who arrest Sung-Rak while Yang-Tae escapes and informs Jang-Chen. Ma and Jeon learn about Jang Chen's crimes where they plan to arrest him. The next day, Jang Chen, along with Yang-Tae attacks Jang-I-soo and his henchmen where he, along with Yang-Tae kill them at Jang-I-Soo's mother's birthday bash. Meanwhile, Jang Chen's location is informed by the hotelier to CEO Hwang (When Jang Chen and his henchmen had killed their men in the hotel), who along with his henchmen arrive and tries to kill Jang Chen, but Jang Chen manages to escape and the hotelier is later killed by Jang Chen and learns Hwang's involvement.

Ma seeks the help of Chinatown colony members for help to catch the Chinese moneylenders. They accept and start taking photos of the moneylenders and the people. Ma and his fellow police officers arrest all of them, including Yang-Tae. One of the police officer named Kang Hong-seok gets caught by Jang Chen and is about to run a car over him, but Ma saves him by crashing into Jang Chen's car. Jang Chen escapes and Ma chases after him but loses sight of him after a while. Jang Chen reaches the airport to fly away to China where he leaves for the restroom. Ma arrives at the restroom and a combat ensues between them. Ma manages to knock down Jang Chen and leaves him handcuffed in the restroom. The gang leaders are arrested and Jeon is congratulated by the commissioner where Ma and his team celebrate for solving the case. Just then, Ma is called by the commissioner to investigate another case.

The Roundup (2022)

Four years after the sweeping operation in Garibong-dong, Detective Ma Seok-do and Captain Jeon Il-man head to Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam to extradite a suspect Yoo Jong-hoon. After their arrival, they meet some Koreans living in Vietnam. Ma interrogates Jong-hoon, who reveals that he turned himself in because Lee Jong-du tried to kill him. Ma and Il-man leave for Jong-du's hideout, only to find him dead, where they learn about the duo's involvement with Kang Hae-sang, a vicious killer who has kidnapped and killed Koreans and several tourists, in exchange for money.

Kang's one such victim is a wealthy young Korean named Choi Yong-gi. Ma, Il-man and Park Chang-su (the resident officer at the consulate) digs the garden, where they find Choi's body, but the local police warn him to halt the investigation. Despite the proceedings, Ma and Il-man arrives at a gambling den, where they interrogate a Korean thug named Raku, and learn that Choi's father Choi Choon-baek, a business mogul have send hitmen to kill Kang. Meanwhile, Kang arrives at the house, where he kills all the hired killers, who reveal about Choon-baek. Ma arrives and overpowers Kang, but the latter escapes. Ma and Il-man are deported back to Korea, where they learn that Kang has smuggled himself and landed in the city to meet Choon-baek.

After the duo land in Korea, Ma interrogates Jang I-soo, who is alive and now running an export service, where he learns about a recently arrived smuggling boat. They check the CCTV footage of Gongping port, only to confirm that Kang has arrived. Choon-baek announces a hefty amount for his men to bring Kang alive. After learning that Kang's case have been handed over to the Foreign Affairs, Ma and Il-man convince their chief and receive a week deadline to catch him. Kang discreetly arrives at Choi's funeral, where he kidnaps Choon-baek, after killing his bodyguard. Kang then contacts Choon-baek's wife Kim In-sook and demands money, in exchange for Choon-baek.

In-sook takes help from Ma and his team and cooperates with them, so that they can arrest Kang. Ma takes the help of Jang I-soo, who along with In-sook heads to the location where the deal is taking place in disguise as her driver. Ma's teammate Dong-gyun finds Kang's hideout where he rescues Choon-baek and requests backup, but is stabbed by Kang, who escapes after seeing the backup cops. After driving at the parking lot of a shopping complex, Jang I-soo escapes with the money, leaving In-sook behind. Ma and his teammates subdue Kang's two associates. Kang finds Jang I-soo with the money, but he escapes.

With the plans of extortion gone awry, Kang decides to escape from Korea with the money that Jang I-soo took. He tracks Jang I-soo's acquaintance Captain Eye and learns that Jang I-soo is planning to escape to China. Kang confronts Jang I-soo, who escapes leaving the money behind. Afterwards, Kang boards a bus to leave Korea. From a tip-off by Jang I-soo, Ma stops the bus where he defeats Kang and has him arrested. In the aftermath, Ma and his team celebrate for solving the case.

The Roundup: No Way Out

After the events following the arrest of Kang Hae-sung, Detective Ma Seok-do who changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who crosses over to Korea to commit heinous crimes.

Reception

Box office performance

Film	Release	Budget	Box office	Ref(s)
The Outlaws	3 October 2017	US$5.8 million	US$52.9 million[1]
The Roundup	18 May 2022	US$10.5 million[2]	US$101.1 million[3][4]
Total		US$16.3 million	US$154 million

Future

A fourth film, produced by B.A. Entertainment and distributed by ABO Entertainment, is being planned with the goal of starting production after the third film ends filming.[5] In May 2022, at a press event for The Roundup, Ma Dong-seok introduced Crime City as a Korean franchise that will be produced as a series of eight films.[6] In July, in an interview with Deadline, he revealed that apart from the eight films, two additional spinoffs have been suggested, hence Crime City, in a way, would be akin to Universal’s Fast & Furious franchise.[7][8]

References

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