Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020)

Beasts Clawing at Straws

Kim Yong-hoon wrote and directed this South Korean neo-noir black comedy crime thriller (Korean: 지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들), his debut feature, adapting Keisuke Sone's 2011 Japanese novel of the same name. Structured in six interlocking chapters, the ensemble film follows several desperate characters whose paths cross around a bag of cash abandoned in a sauna locker: put-upon employee Joong-man (Bae Seong-woo), caring for his ailing mother; customs officer Tae-young (Jung Woo-sung), in debt to a loan shark and plotting a scam against a fleeing "sucker"; and escort Mi-ran (Shin Hyun-been), looking for a way out of an abusive marriage. Jeon Do-yeon and Youn Yuh-jung also star. The film premiered in the Tiger Competition at the 2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam, winning the Special Jury Award, and opened in South Korea on February 19, 2020. (Wikipedia)

Watches

Omega Vintage Small Seconds

Worn by Jung Woo-sung as Tae-young. Seoul retailer abbawatch.co.kr (아빠시계), which states in first person that it supplied the watch, credits Jung Woo-sung's indebted customs officer Tae-young with a vintage Omega carrying a subsidiary small-seconds subdial: "정우성님 영화 지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들 빈티지 오메가 독립초침 시계 협찬" (actor Jung Woo-sung, film "Beasts Clawing at Straws," vintage Omega independent-seconds watch sponsored). No caliber, case metal, or reference is named beyond the dial layout. (abbawatch.co.kr)

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