“The best Korean gangster movie since Friend.” - Variety“Since I've got my foot into this world… might as well go all the way…” Second-in-rank Byung-doo is a gangster stuck between his overbearing boss and younger criminals, each as aggressive and ambitious as the next and ever ready to take his place. Caring for his siblings and a sick mother, he swings between his real family and his criminal one, the load of each weighing him down until an opportunity arises to change everything.Violent, mud-splattered and unrelenting, A Dirty Carnival scavenges through the human desires and family loyalties that exist even in the shadiest realms of society. As Byung-doo muses, “What is a family… It's a mouth that eats from the same table.”