If American audiences know Hyung Rae-Shim at all, it's as the guy behind the wonderfully-awful "Dragon Wars;" but he has a HUGE following in his native Korea for his prior career as a popular comic actor - he'd done dozens of films, almost always as a variation on a slapstick character named "Yonguu" (spelling varies.) Now, he's brought the Yonguu person to English-language features; this time as the hitherto-unknown Korean son of a New York mafia don (Harvey Keitel!) in "The Last Godfather."
Yes, they're really selling it on the pitch of "The Director of Dragon Wars." Awesome.
"From the director of Dragon Wars!"

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