This movie is very lackluster compared to the rest of Korean cinema, it is very typical and fits a little too much with a Hollywood title. I'd recommend better movies about gangster's such as New World and Inside Men. I was hoping for more from this movie but it delivered an extremely underwhelming and predictable experience.

I was totally confused after watching this extra ordinary movie of its genre. I was hoping a gangster movie with cold blooded action choreography but turned out to be sentimental & a powerful drama.Sunflower is a story of Tae-shik, a former gangster who is released on parole visits a sunflower lady and her daughter and trying to lead a normal life. But things were not good as he expected. How he evades all the obstacles forms the whole story.The Script and Screenplay were too good and was well executed. Even though the movie was slow paced but was registered with our mind and doesn't allow us to take our eyes away. Sunflower is a bag of mixture of emotions. And in the end, the mass action scene was also well choreographed.Rae-won Kim delivered an awesome show as Tae-shik. And the role played by the mother and daughter was also brilliant with their performances. The villain was not up to the mark but did okay. An Emotional Drama with a pinch of actionMy rating: 7.9 on 10

Sunflower is a South Korean gangster film that stars Kim Rae-won and Kim Hae-sook.It is about former gangster Tae-sik,who is released from prison and heads back to his hometown to live in a small restaurant with a woman.It was written and directed by Kang Seok-beom.Tae-sik, who cleansed up the neighborhood back alley with his bare knuckle after dropping out of high school, is released on parole. The once sacrificial sheep of Tae-sik's frank Min-seok has become a detective and Tae-sik's henchmen friends have turned on each other's back. As if have forgotten the old days he shared with them, Tae-sik only does what he wishes to do, which was written down on his crumpling small scrapbook. Tae-sik finds a warm shelter in the small neighborhood food joint 'Sunflower', where Tae-sik handed his scrapbook to its owner before. Attempting to leave his past behind, he takes a job in a garage and tries to keep away from the local gangs, most of whom still live in fear of his brutal reputation. When a local politician wants to knock down his adoptive mom's restaurant to build a new shopping mall, Tae-sik struggles to avoid returning to a life of violence. However, nobody believes him but the owner and her daughter of the 'Sunflower'.This makes it an inspirational tale that doesn't glamorize the gangster lifestyle.Aside from that,it tells a story of someone who is about to leave the gangster life behind. It shows the respect that can come with not fighting and earning a hard days pay. The violence is sparse but always brutal without being graphic. It is whom the violence happens to that makes it shocking. But when the film takes the time and effort to humanize and empathize with characters. That is the biggest achievement of this South Korean film.

Tae-sik, who cleansed up the neighborhood back alley with his bare knuckle after dropping out of high school, is released on parole. The once sacrificial sheep of Tae-sik's friend Min-seok has become a detective and Tae-sik's henchmen friends have turned on each other's back. As if have forgotten the old days he shared with them, Tae-sik only does what he wishes to do, which was written down on his crumpling small scrapbook.Tae-sik finds a warm shelter in the small neighborhood food joint 'Sunflower'. Tae-sik tries to live a quiet new life with the lady who runs the restaurant and her daughter, Hee-ju.from the second half onwards the movie becomes more and more melodramatic and bursts of violence is thrown in every now and then. A little bit more common sense would have been desirable."Haebaragi, Sunflower" can't evoke the tears that it was actually expected to deliver.