Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time

Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time
Promotional poster
Korean name
Hangul
범죄와의 전쟁
Hanja
犯罪와의 戰爭
Revised RomanizationBeomjoewaui Jeonjaeng
McCune–ReischauerPŏmjoewaŭi Chŏnjaeng
Directed byYoon Jong-bin
Written byYoon Jong-bin
Produced by
  • Park Shin-gyoo
  • Yoo Jeong-hoon
StarringChoi Min-sik
Ha Jung-woo
CinematographyGo Nak-seon
Edited byKim Sang-bum
Kim Jae-bum
Music byJo Yeong-wook
Production
companies
Palette Pictures
Showbox
Distributed byShowbox
Release date
  • February 2, 2012 (2012-02-02)
Running time
133 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
BudgetUS$4 million
Box officeUS$33.6 million

Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (Korean: 범죄와의 전쟁: 나쁜놈들 전성시대; lit. War on Crime: The Golden Age of the Bad Guys) is a 2012 South Korean gangster film directed by Yoon Jong-bin starring Choi Min-sik and Ha Jung-woo. The film is set in the 1980s and ’90s in Busan when corruption and crime was so rampant that the government declared war on it in 1990.

Time praised the film, calling it "the Korean mob film Martin Scorsese would be proud of."