Running Turtle
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| Hangul | |
| Revised Romanization | Geobuki dalinda |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kŏbuki tallinta |
| Directed by | Lee Yeon-woo |
| Produced by | Lee Choon-yeon Lee Mi-yeong |
| Written by | Lee Yeon-woo |
| Starring |
Kim Yoon-seok Jung Kyung-ho |
| Music by | Lee Byung-hoon Jang Young-gyu |
| Cinematography | Jo Yong-gyu |
| Edited by | Steve M. Choe |
| Distributed by | Showbox |
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117 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$16,823,955 |
Running Turtle (Hangul: 거북이 달린다; RR: Geobuki dalinda) is a 2009 South Korean film about a countryside detective trying to capture a legendary prison breaker. Released on June 11, 2009, it was directed by Lee Yeon-woo and starred Kim Yoon-seok and Jung Kyung-ho.
Jo Pil-seong is an idle detective who spends his time scratching off lottery tickets in his office, while his wife and children work in a manwha shop. Pil-seong secretly takes his wife's emergency money of ₩300,000 and tells his friend to bet it on a bull name Gomi in a bullfight. Gomi is declared as a winner, and Pil-seong's friends celebrate their victory later that night as they wait for him to arrive.
Meanwhile, an escaped prisoner named Song Gi-tae intervenes in the celebration and steals Pil-seong's money. When Pil-seong finds out what has happened he confronts the criminal, but suffers a humiliating defeat.
Pil-seong reports to his colleagues and his boss that he encountered the infamous Gi-tae, but none of them believed in him. In an attempt to recapture Gi-tae, Pil-seong decides to recruit his friends (who were beaten up by Gi-tae earlier) and found him inside a house with his girlfriend, Kyeong-joo. Formulating a plan, Pil-seong tells his friends to stand by the outside window of where Gi-tae was, while Pil-seong himself sneaks into the house, armed with pepper spray. Gi-tae, however, was aware of Pil-seong's presence and once escaped before the police arrived. Before leaving, Gi-tae takes out his knife, stabs Pil-seong's right hand, and warns him that the next time he'll kill him if he tries to capture him again.
Suffering from public humiliation as well as being kicked out of the house by his wife (because of her money), Pil-seong decides to train himself in fighting Gi-tae. When taking taekwondo lessons one day, Pil-seong learns that the upper part of the human rib cage is the vulnerable area of taking his opponents down. He later buys himself his own handgun as his own personal defense weapon.
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