Ji finds himself in jail and his life gets even worse when the new prison warden is revealed to be Ahn Seok (Choi Min Soo), the officer who killed his friend. The warden proceeds to make Ji's life a living hell, until he is driven to escape. And shockingly, he succeeds, with the aid of a gang of inmates who help him overpower their armed guards. The nine days that followed have been well-chronicled in the Korean media, as Ji and his gang robbed and rampaged, before holing themselves up with a houseful of hostages to sweat out a long and draining police siege. Ji's immortal statement, "The wealthy are always innocent, while the poor are always guilty" struck a chord with the Korean people and helped Ji's legend live on, long after the siege came to its tragic end.

The film's plot follows Ji Kang Hyuk (Lee Song Jae, also in Public Enemy), whose best friend is gunned down during one of the clearances, and who is himself sent to prison. Here, he has the misfortune to fall under the care of Ahn Seok (played by Choi Min Soo, who starred in the director's Libera Me), who just happens to be the man who killed his friend. After suffering under Ahn's brutal regime, Ji and a motley gang of other inmates manage to escape, planning ... [Read more]