My wife is a gangster II (2003)

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean

Actors: Shin Eun-Kyung, Park, Jun-Gyu, Jang Se-Jin & Zhang Ziyi (in a cameo)

Director: Jeong Heung-Sun

A sequel of the 2001 movie of the same name. In this the gang boss Eun-Jin is badly hurt in a fight and loses her memory. She is rescued by a guy who runs a small Chinese restaurant and then remains there as a delivery woman / chef till about 1 hr 20 min 20 sec into the movie (without regaining her memory of course).

In the interim without realizing who she is, she fights 3 armed robbers in a bank, get feted. And gets to become the president of a commercial district (where her Chinese restaurant is) which is threatened demolition by a rival gang to build a commercial complex. That is the time when the rival gang realize who she is and her own gang finds her.

Then comes the climax that lasts the next 20 mins of the movie. Here she regains her memory, fights her rivals to stamp her authority and then comes the unnecessary entry of Zhang Ziyi (why did the producer waste money on her ?) in the last scene. She is the boss of a Chinese gang who fight Eun-Jin’s gang. And only god & the director know what happened afterwards because they freeze in the air trying to attack each other when the closing title rolls.

Did they really need to make a sequel ? And that too with a new director and new writer ?

Giving it a miss will save you 2 beers (for another auspicious & useful occasion !!) and a headache.

PS: I fear of a terrible hangover when I move to “My wife is a gangster III”, god save me !!