Tazza: One Eyed Jack

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Tazza: One Eyed Jack
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Hangul
타짜: 원 아이드 잭
Revised Romanization Ta-jja: Won A-i-deu Jaek
Directed byKwon Oh-kwang
Screenplay byKwon Oh-kwang
Based on Tajja
by Huh Young-man and Kim Se-yeong
Produced byKim Young-min
Kim Yoo-kyung
Starring Park Jeong-min
Ryoo Seung-bum
Choi Yu-hwa
Lee Kwang-soo
Yoon Je-moon
CinematographyByun Bong-sun
Edited byKim Woo-il
Music by Bang Jun-seok
Production
companies
Sidus Corporation
BA Entertainment
MCMC
Touchstone Pictures
Distributed by Lotte Entertainment
Release date
  • September 11, 2019 (2019-09-11)
Running time
139 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Budget₩8.9~11 billion [1]
Box officeUS$16.5 million [2]

Tazza: One Eyed Jack is a 2019 South Korean crime drama film directed by Kwon Oh-kwang, starring Park Jeong-min, Ryoo Seung-bum, Choi Yu-hwa, Yoon Je-moon, Woo Hyun and Lee Kwang-soo. [3]

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Plot

A young poker player at the top of his game loses everything after he plays for one big jackpot. To save himself from a loan shark settling his debts, he joins a poker team led by the legendary poker player "One-Eyed Jack". While successfully working their plan to win a huge jackpot, a single mistake puts the entire team in a dangerous life or death situation.

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Production

Principal photography began on September 12, 2018, and wrapped on February 2, 2019. [4]

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