Nameless Gangster: Rules of Time

COMING SOON: Yoon Jong Bin's Nameless Gangster: Rules of Time (South Korea, 2012). Largely set in 1980s Busan, "Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time" is a rags-to-rogues crimer whose finely chiseled portraits of greed, self-preservation and depravity are buttressed by powerhouse perfs. Methodically chronicling the volatile alliance between a corrupt official and the city's top mafioso, helmer-scribe Yoon Jong-bin ("Unforgiven," "Beastie Boys") achieves a down-and-dirty realism, but falls short of the Scorsese-style gangland epics to which it aspires, and likewise lacks the satirical punch of Ryoo Seung-wan's political thriller "The Unjust." Local B.O. recorded a satisfactory $32 million-plus; offshore, pic won't languish in anonymity, either.