My Wife is a Gangster 3 (2006) [/]
Oct 30 2024
In My Wife is a Gangster 3 Lim Yaling (Shu Qi), daughter of a Hong Kong mob boss, is sent to Seoul, Korea to hide out from assassins. The local boss there assigns Ki-chul (Lee Beom-soo), a fairly low-ranked gangster with two inept underlings, to guard Yaling.
He thinks she's a harmless stuck-up princess. She thinks he's a fool. It doesn't help they don't speak a common language and it's hilarious that their forcibly hired translator Yeon-hee (Hyun Young) doesn't do literal translations and instead says whatever she thinks is appropriate.
Anyway there is a rival Korean gang and Yaling shows off her fighting skills, though not to any of her companions who got knocked out first. Then there are elite HK assassins and once again Yalin demonstrates she can handle herself and by now her companions realize Yalin is a bad-ass fighter.
And during all this stuff Yalin and Ki-chul start falling for each other and they have some funny conversations without an interpreter where they totally misunderstand what the other one is saying.
Eventually a final showdown. Yaling returns to HK to avenge her father and Ki-chul follows like a love-sick puppy. She becomes head of the HK Triad and empathically forces him to propose marriage, which is not necessarily against. Happy ending.
This is an entertaining film though feels low budget (produced in Korea). I haven't watched the previous two though I guess this one has no continuation. Shi Qi is charismatic. Lee Beom-soo less so. Hyun Young is a scene stealer.
He thinks she's a harmless stuck-up princess. She thinks he's a fool. It doesn't help they don't speak a common language and it's hilarious that their forcibly hired translator Yeon-hee (Hyun Young) doesn't do literal translations and instead says whatever she thinks is appropriate.
Anyway there is a rival Korean gang and Yaling shows off her fighting skills, though not to any of her companions who got knocked out first. Then there are elite HK assassins and once again Yalin demonstrates she can handle herself and by now her companions realize Yalin is a bad-ass fighter.
And during all this stuff Yalin and Ki-chul start falling for each other and they have some funny conversations without an interpreter where they totally misunderstand what the other one is saying.
Eventually a final showdown. Yaling returns to HK to avenge her father and Ki-chul follows like a love-sick puppy. She becomes head of the HK Triad and empathically forces him to propose marriage, which is not necessarily against. Happy ending.
This is an entertaining film though feels low budget (produced in Korea). I haven't watched the previous two though I guess this one has no continuation. Shi Qi is charismatic. Lee Beom-soo less so. Hyun Young is a scene stealer.