Crime

Yadang: The Snitch

- The prosecutor, the detective, the drug dealer, all line up before him.

Drug-criminals take advantage of commutation by passing over the insider’s information bought from ‘Ya-Dang’. Cops and prosecutors, on the other hand, make performances by using the information. There is a triangle in Korean drug-crime scene: police, prosecutors and the game changer, ‘Ya-Dang’.

Release Date : 2025-04-16

Language :Korean

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Hive Media CorpPlus M Entertainment

Production Country : South Korea

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Kang-soo

Original Name : 강하늘

Gender : Male

Character Name : Koo Gwan-hee

Original Name : 유해진

Gender : Male

Character Name : Oh Sang-jae

Original Name : 박해준

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cho Hoon

Original Name : 류경수

Gender : Male

Character Name : Uhm Su-jin

Original Name : 채원빈

Gender : Female

Character Name : Yeom Tae-soo

Original Name : 유성주

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kim Hak-nam

Original Name : 김금순

Gender : Female

Character Name : Chang-rak

Original Name : 임성균

Gender : Male

Character Name : Manager Oh

Original Name : 조완기

Gender : Male

Character Name : Detective Park

Original Name : 곽자형

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jong-soo

Original Name : 윤태수

Gender : Male

Character Name : Park Hyun-sook

Original Name : Yoon Hyun-gil

Gender : Female

Character Name : Reporter Song

Original Name : Park Ji-hong

Gender : Male

Character Name : Oh Jae-cheol

Original Name : 우지현

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cho Sang-taek

Original Name : 홍서준

Gender : Male

Character Name : Manager Nam

Original Name : 권혁

Gender : Male

Character Name : Geok-hyun

Original Name : Jeong Do-won

Gender : Male

Character Name : Investigator

Original Name : 강지운

Gender : Male

Character Name : Investigator

Original Name : 성태준

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sponsor

Original Name : Choe Min

Gender : Male

Character Name : Drunken

Original Name : 김정팔

Gender : Male

Character Name : Prosecutor General

Original Name : 서광재

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ko Heung-sik

Original Name : 박완규

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr. Kim

Original Name : 이서환

Gender : Male

Character Name : Seo Jong-hae

Original Name : Park Hyeok-min

Gender : Male

Character Name : Yamamoto

Original Name : Gong Jae-min

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kang Myeong-cheol

Original Name : Jang Yong-chul

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chief of Central District Prosecutors' Office

Original Name : Park Yoon-hee

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jung Jung-ok

Original Name : Kim Ye-ji

Gender : Female

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2025-05-18

I must admit I didn’t quite understand just what was going on at the start of this. “Lee Kang-su” (Kang Ha-neul) is a brash and confident young man who manages to get information on drug dealers which he then passes on to the police and/or the public prosecutors in return for a cut and them getting a reduced sentence if they turn state’s evidence. Thing is, the further up the food chain they get the more political “interference” the investigators encounter and pretty swiftly that causes problems for this young “Yadang” as he ends up a victim of his erstwhile protector, ambitious prosecutor “Ku Gwen-hee” (Yoo Hae-jin) and pumped full of blue methadone to the point where he doesn’t know day from night. Once released, though, he unites with similarly manipulated former police captain “Oh Sang-jae” (Park Hae-joon) and an young actor (Chae Won-bin) whose career was wrecked after she, too, was exposed to this highly addictive substance and ultimately used as a glorified hooker by someone extremely close to the presidency - and the election is looming. Once the story gets up and running, this proves to be quite an entertaining, if not always entirely plausible, analysis of lucrative drug running and politicking in a South Korea that seems determined to stamp out criminality however perilous that path might be. It’s a gritty, sometimes seedy film that sees both men and Chae Win-bin deliver strongly and in the case of Kang Hae-neul enthusiastically too. There is plenty of action across the two hours and the denouement has something of “The Sting” (1973) to it as vengeance knows few bounds. Worth a watch.