Another Gangster Falls In Love In "When A Man Loves"

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Han Hye Jin
Hwang Jung Min
Song Seung Hoon
When A Man Loves

The new film "When A Man Loves," starring Han Hye Jin, Hwang Jung Min, Kwak Do Won, Jung Man Shik and Kang Min Ah, should not be confused with the 2013 drama of the same name. Even if the film does have a similar plot.

In the film "When A Man Loves" a gangster with little love experience is transformed by his feelings for a woman. In the drama, a gangster transforms himself into a businessman but is almost undone by his love for an undeserving woman.

In the drama, Song Seung Hoon plays the thug turned semi-respectable businessman. In the film, the main character is a thug named Tae Il. Hwang Jung Min does a good job of playing Tae Il, a gangster who knows nothing about pity and less about love. Tae Il collects debts for a loan shark and despite being 40 has never fallen in love.

The woman Tae Il finally falls in love with is Ho Jung. Han Hye Jin plays Ho Jung. The actress currently appears as the straying wife in the drama "One Warm Word." Ho Jung is a bank clerk who cares for her very sick father, a man with a crippling amount of debt. Tae Il is the man who must collect the debt and that's how he first confronts Ho Jung.

But his hard-line approach fails him. When they first meet, he forces her to sign a contract. She must sell her organs if she can't pay back her dad's debt. But he can't get her out of his mind and comes up with a new contract. She must date him to repay the debt and the more dates she goes on, the further the debt will be reduced.

She would like to reject the offer but can't. She has no other options. Despite their differences, the two grow closer, especially when he is the only person who shows up at her father's funeral. Love is a funny thing. But it can't end well when the lovers are this mismatched. Still, the film offers some comic moments including the efforts the gangster takes to impress the woman he cares for.

The gangster melodrama will be released on Jan. 22. The same producers who created the film "New World" have produced this film. His gangster role in that film won Hwang Jung Min a Best Actor award at the Blue Dragon Awards.

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