#Heartless City

[whumpetywhump]

Heartless City (2013)

Jung Shi Hyun

01:

- Has a glass smashed over his head, bleeding

02:

- Car crash, knocked out, crawls from the wreckage, face cut and bruised, stumbling, falls to his knees

03:

- Stabbed in the gut, punched in the wound, stumbling, collapses, stitches and cauterises his own wound, screaming in pain

04:

- Grieving, sobbing

05:

- Flashback: Arrested, handcuffed, manhandled

08:

- Stabbed in the arm during a fight, hit over the head, stunned, collapses, writhing in pain, tries and fails to stand

09:

- Still weak, concussed and bleeding from the arm after last episode

10:

- Reveals a scar on his chest

11:

- Smacked in the face, bloody lip, forced to his knees

12:

- Lip still split from last episode

13:

- Hit over the head, knocked out, tied up, wakes up gasping in pain, has his throat stepped on, kicked in the face, loses a tooth, bleeding from the mouth

14:

- Lip still bloody

- Hit over the head with a metal pipe during a fight, bleeding, punched in the face, cuts on his cheek and hands, limping, doubled over in pain

- In a state of shock, collapses, crying, crushes his own hand with a rock, bleeding, later seen with it bandaged

15:

- Hand still bandaged and cheek still cut from last episode

- Emotional breakdown, collapses to his knees, sobbing

17:

- Stabbed in the gut, manhandled to his knees, later performing first aid on himself

19:

- Shot in the back, bleeding

- Betrayed, in a state of shock, sobbing

- Has the wound on his back cleaned for him

- Repeatedly beaten with a wooden bat, bleeding from the head, face bruised and bloody, collapses to his knees, punched in the face, rescued

20:

- Face still cut and bruised from last episode

- Emotional breakdown, sobbing, comforted

- Watches his friend die in his arms, grieving, sobbing

- Shot in the chest, collapses, cradled, dies in his girlfriend’s arms

Kim Hyun Soo

02:

- Ambushed, restrained, stabbed in the gut, bleeding out, left for dead, carried to hospital, unconscious in bed, carried from the hospital to avoid police

03:

- Stomach still bandaged from last episode, struggling to walk straight, refusing help

08:

- Cuts his cheek and lip during a fistfight

- Kidnapped, held hostage, unconscious, bleeding from the head, tied up

09:

- Still bleeding, unconscious and tied up from last episode, rescued, unable to walk without support, clutching his head, later seen with his wound dressed

- Flashback: Bruised face, stabbed in the gut, collapses

13:

- Split lip after a fight

14:

- Reveals the scar from his stabbing

- Hit across the back with a pipe, knocked to the ground

15:

- Bleeding from the head after a fight

17:

- Kidnapped, face bloody from being beaten, bound and gagged, has his wrist cut, collapses, passes out from blood loss, carried to safety, recovering in hospital with his arm and head bandaged

18:

- Head still bandaged from last episode

20:

- Outnumbered in a fight, punched in the face, repeatedly struck with wooden bats, face cut and bruised, stabbed in the gut and back, collapses, rescued, dies in his friend’s arms

Ji Hyung Min

03:

- Slapped in the face

04:

- Grieving, screaming, sobbing

- Shot, dragged to safety, recovering in hospital

06:

- Hit by a car, nosebleed, passes out, rushed to hospital, unconscious in bed

- Tries to fight someone while still hospitalised, dizzy, unsteady on his feet, migraine, clutching his head, gasping in pain

- Migraine, collapses and passes out, carried to safety, wakes up in hospital

16:

- Outnumbered in a fight, beaten up, hit with a wooden stake, bleeding from the head, spitting blood, taken hostage at knifepoint, has his bruised arm examined by a doctor, wincing in pain, has it bandaged

17:

- Arm still bandaged from last episode

TW: Contains themes of suicide, noncon, drug abuse and forced prostitution

[thetulip84]

[somedayillbepeterpan]

I can’t believe I won’t have Kyung-ho every week again 😭😭😭

I’ll probably rewatch ccir for about a month after this.

but i really really need more Kyung-ho lead roles.

[dangermousie]

This MV is insane!

[mousieta]

Review: Cruel City

Year: 2013 Country: Korea Platform: Viki Heartless City (also: Cruel City) is one of the very first KDramas I ever watched and still one of my all-time favorites. It’s had a few rewatches from me over the years but its been about 5 years since the last one. As we are coming up on 10 years of my watching Dramas I’ve had the desire to go back and look of some of those early favs to see how they hold up.

This one absolutely does.

A gritty, cop noir drama, the show focuses on our anti-hero ‘Doctor’s Son’ as he plots and fights to make it to the top of Seoul’s drug running underworld. He is played to absolute stunning perfection by Jung Kyung Ho who layers him with depth and pathos, his silences are intense, his focus piercing. He is compelling from the first moment he appears on screen.

Around him, he assembles a crew of broken, flawed misfits and through sheer force of will shapes them into a family. Chief among them are his lieutenants Madam Jin Sook and playboy Hyeon Soo. His foil is the cop, Hyeong Min who is trying to unravel the layers of corruption, deception and crime all around him, using his young sister-in-law Soo Min as an undercover agent/sex-worker.

The performances are riveting, every member of the cast in top form, providing depth and nuance to their characters, infusing otherwise despicable characters with a lovable charm.

The directing is solid, fully seated in its genre. And the writing, while stretching the suspension of disbelief just shy of too far with the various twists and turns of the plots, saves itself by being deeply rooted in its understanding of the story’s characters. While there is an element of romance it is secondary to the much larger plot, which can sometimes be a refreshing change in a romance-heavy drama landscape.

Watch this when you want something dark and painful and beautiful, when you want to be reminded that even at their ugliest people are capable of change, and love and there is a bleak kind of beauty in that. However, I must advise trigger warnings for drug use, violence, and depictions of sexual assault and murder, on screen, as well as an on screen sex scene, so proceed with caution if those are concerns for you.

[fromthemindofacancermoon]

[trek-tracks]

especially in the past, where they used to CUT and SEW people like GARMENTS!!!

[galactic-feelins]

I've finally drawn again! And of course it's Roxas again! From the same crossover au as usual! TwT

As a heartless I imagine Sora loses himself a little when feeling extremely emotional, but instead of getting aggressive he's just like the ship's weird cat. Sometimes you just need some lap time to calm down again :)

[antisolanum]

Oh my god Ozz cares about Vic so much it hurts

[relaxedstyles]

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Heartless City - Ep. 6

[motheringbird]

*Me after obsessing over something and making it my whole personality for months on end just to fall out of it suddenly one day and move onto the next thing*

[ro-sham-no]

cities, a poem by me.

[mousieta]

Fandom: Heartless City

Pairing: Jung Shi Hyun & Ji Hyeong Min

Rating: T

Archive warnings: None

Tags: post-canon; character study; angst; mentions of canonical character deaths

Summary: Five years out from the mission that changed the trajectory of his life, Hyeong Min is still trying to process it all. A chance encounter may give him the space he needs to fully let go of his painful past, and the future that will never be.

This is a story about healing from trauma in a beautiful moment far away from the pain of the past. It is about the unique connection of those bonded by tragedy. It is about making space to mourn what was lost and never was.

AN: Is this story basically a love letter to the summer in my 20s that I spent in Spain camouflaged as a sort of fix-it-fic? Maybe yes it is.