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Korea's Serial-Killer Manhunts

Watch these together for Korean cinema's obsession with the killer who slips through the system: bungling cops, vigilantes and even a gangster each chase the same monster, and the police look worse every time.

Widely loved genre canon led by a film-school-grade masterpiece, but all of them are brutal, and I Saw the Devil and The Chaser are among the most punishing thrillers people recommend to each other.