| Tazza: The High Rollers | |
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Tazza: The High Rollers film poster |
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| Hangul | 타짜 |
| RR | Tajja |
| MR | T‘acha |
| Directed by | Choi Dong-hun |
| Written by | Choi Dong-hun Yeong-min Ha |
| Starring | Jo Seung-woo Baek Yoon-sik Kim Hye-su Yun-seok Kim |
| Release date(s) | September 28, 2006 |
| Running time | 139 min. |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Admissions | 5,440,357 |
Tazza: The High Rollers (a.k.a. The War of Flower, Korean: 타짜) is a 2006 South Korean film based on Huh Young-man's manhwa (comics). The story involves a group of grifters involved in the Korean card game called Hwatu (Korean: 화투, Hanja: 花鬪).
Go-nee has lost his entire savings, saved over a period of 5 years, at a gambling joint. While Go-nee drinks heavily, determined to throw away his life, he discovers that he was swindled by professional fraudulent gamblers, so-called ‘slickers’. To regain his money, Go-nee begins training to be the best slicker under a master of gambling, Mr. Pyeong. Go-nee becomes famous, wandering about different gambling places throughout the country with Pyeong. Moreover, Madam Jung who has never gotten along with Mr. Pyeong, begins to show interest in Go-nee…
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