A Man of Reason

Su-hyuk has spent ten years in prison serving time on behalf of his boss, Woo-jin. On release, he learns that he has a daughter, In-bi, with his former partner Min-seo, and he decides to cut his ties to the criminal world and try to build an ordinary life with them. Woo-jin, who in the meantime has given his old gang the appearance of legitimacy and now operates through urban development, is unwilling to let him go. When Su-hyuk hesitates, a killer is sent after him, and the pressure soon falls on the daughter he has only just met.

A Man of Reason is a Korean action drama directed by Jung Woo-sung, who also stars as Su-hyuk; he wrote the screenplay with Jung Hae-sin. The cast includes Kim Nam-gil as Woo-jin, Kim Jun-han, Park You-na, Ryu Ji-an and Park Sung-woong, with 45 credited performers in all. The film runs 99 minutes and was released in August 2023, made for a budget of about 6 million dollars. It was Jung Woo-sung's first time directing a feature, and it arrived after a long acting career rather than at its beginning; among the facts given, it stands as the earliest of his directorial works.

Audience response has been moderate: on IMDb it holds 5.9 out of 10 from around 1,400 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.6 out of 10 from roughly 120 votes. A critics' rating of 4.7 out of 10 from nine reviews places it below both audience scores.