Stray Dogs (2014 film)

So Yoo-joon (Kim Jeong-hoon) who aspires to be a distinguished reporter is now a third-class reporter. Besides being hounded by vicious loan sharks to pay off his gambling debts, he is also having an affair with Jung-in, the wife of his friend-cum-colleague, who wants to call it quits. Determined to keep her even if he has to kill her husband, he sets out to find him who is on an assignment in an isolated village. While searching for him, his car breaks down and he is stuck at the village.[1]

Although the village seems peaceful, it is hiding a hideous secret – a young woman Kim Eun-hee (Cha Ji-heon), a long time resident, has inadvertently become the sexual plaything for the perverted and pathetic elder village men. When Yoo-joon tries to help Eun-hee, he finds himself on a violent collision course with the locals and the village chief Jang Gi-no (Myung Kae-nam).

• Kim Jeong-hoon as So Yoo-joon
• Cha Ji-heon as Kim Eun-hee
• Myung Kae-nam as Jang Gi-no
• Lee Jae-po as Han Dong-goo
• Jo Duk-je as Choi Yong-gil
• Kim Seong-gi as Lee Jong-gook

James Mudge: No film that deals with this kind of subject matter should really be guilt-free enjoyment, and with Wild Dogs, Ha Won-jun is clearly aiming for hard-edged and challenging. To his credit he largely succeeds, and though not really in the same league as Moss or Bedevilled, the film is an effective piece of suspenseful rural nastiness in its own right.[1]

C.J. Wheeler: Stray Dogs is, as best, cynical and stale; and at worst a misogynistic mess ladened with endless exposition and creaky hinges.[2]

• Stray Dogs at HanCinema
• Stray Dogs at the Korean Movie Database
• Stray Dogs at IMDb