Master (2016 film)
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| Hangul | 마스터 |
| Revised Romanization | Maseuteo |
| Directed by | Cho Ui-seok |
| Written by | Cho Ui-seok Kim Hyun-duk |
| Produced by | Lee Yu-jin |
| Starring | Lee Byung-hun Gang Dong-won Kim Woo-bin Uhm Ji-won Oh Dal-su Jin Kyung |
| Cinematography | Yoo Eok Kim Jung-woo |
| Edited by | Shin Min-kyung |
| Music by | Dalpalan Jang Yeong-gyu |
Production companies | Movie House Zip Cinema |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
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Running time | 143 minutes |
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| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$50.5 million |
Master (Korean: 마스터; RR: Maseuteo, also stylized as MA$TER) is a 2016 South Korean action crime film directed by Cho Ui-seok. Written jointly by Cho Ui-seok and Kim Hyun-duk, it stars Lee Byung-hun, Gang Dong-won and Kim Woo-bin in the lead roles. The narrative centers around the manhunt for a conman launched by South Korea's financial crime unit after he absconds with the money and assumes a new identity, causing a cop to team up with the conman's mastermind partner in order to crack the case involving a nationwide financial fraud leads to the Southeast Asian haven for scam artists, thieves, and criminals: Metro Manila.
The film opened theatrically in South Korea on 21 December 2016, and received more than 7 million admissions nationwide. It grossed more than $48 million at the South Korean box office.