Sang-Hyun, who lost his wife, lives with his daughter Soo-Jin. One day, Soo-Jin is raped and murdered. Frustrated by the lack of progress in his daughter's case, Sang-Hyun gets a mysterious hint by an unknown voice. He learns the identity of the two men who killed his daughter and the address of one of those two men. Sang-Hyun then goes to the home of that man and finds some evidence. Full of anger, he picks up a rifle and goes after the boy who took his daughter from him.
Broken is based on a book written by Keigo Higashino, who also wrote a book that the film White Night (2009), another film which has been featured on this blog, was adapted from. Here we follow a desperate father who seeks his own kind of justice when his only daughter has been killed in a horrendous manner. While watching the film I pondered over the question of what I would do in the fathers situation, if I had the means and the ways of finding the people responsible. Probably nothing this extreme, I think.
A Japanese film, called the The Hovering Blade (2009), was also based on this same story and I've heard that it's really good. Unfortunately I've yet to see that one, but Broken is by all means a film you should check out if you're a fan of Asian revenge thrillers.
Genre: Drama/Mystery/Thriller
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