Tazza: The Hidden Card
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| Revised Romanization | Tajja: Sineui Son |
| McCune–Reischauer | T‘acha: Sin-ŭi Son |
| Directed by | Kang Hyeong-cheol |
| Produced by | Lee Anna |
| Written by | Jo Sang-beom |
| Based on |
Tajja by Huh Young-man and Kim Se-yeong |
| Starring |
Choi Seung-hyun Shin Se-kyung Kwak Do-won Lee Ha-nui Yoo Hae-jin Kim Yoon-seok |
| Music by | Kim Jun-seok |
| Cinematography | Kim Tae-gyeong |
| Edited by | Nam Na-yeong |
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Lotte Entertainment CJ Entertainment (international) |
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147 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | $30,915,237 |
Tazza: The Hidden Card (Hangul: 타짜: 신의 손; RR: Tajja: Sineui Son; lit. "Tazza: Hand of God") is a 2014 South Korean gambling film directed by Kang Hyeong-cheol based on Huh Young-man and Kim Se-yeong's manhwa of the same name.
After Ham Dae-gil enters the gambling world, he is set up as the fall guy in a crooked deal. To get revenge, he enters a final game which could be fatal to the loser.
Due to the box office success of Choi Dong-hoon's gambling epic Tazza: The High Rollers (it attracted 6.84 million in admissions in 2006, making it one of the highest-grossing Korean films that year), production company Sidus FNH announced a sequel, with Jang Joon-hwan originally attached as screenwriter/director and a release planned for late 2008. But pre-production was later halted, and Jang pulled out of the film.
Speculation about a sequel continued, given that Tajja, the famous local comic series (or "manhwa") illustrated by Huh Young-man and written by Kim Se-yeong that served as the 2006 film's source material comes in four volumes, each with entirely different characters and settings. Tazza 2 is based on the second volume Tazza: Hand of God, which was published on November 16, 2006 by Random House Korea.
In 2012, Kang Hyeong-cheol signed on to direct the sequel, and casting was finalized in late 2013, with Choi Seung-hyun as lead character Ham Dae-gil, the nephew of Goni, the protagonist in Tazza: The High Rollers.
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