First Image From Ryoo Seung-Wan's Feature Length DACHIMAWA LEE!

Long before he began turning heads around the globe with films such as the Cannes award-winning Crying Fist, South Korea's Ryoo Seung-Wan turned heads at home with an energetic short film titled Dachimawa Lee. Rarely seen in the western world it introduced Korean audiences to Ryoo's kinetic style and served notice that a major new talent had arrived in the country. Ryoo likes to be busy and so when his period zombie martial arts picture Yacha took longer than expected to get off the ground he opted to return to his roots and expand that early short out into a feature. Slated for a late summer or early fall release, the feature version of Dachimawa Lee is being shot now and the first image has arrived.

Under Japanese imperialism, Korean national treasure Golden Buddha is stolen. The interim government appoints legendary Korean spy agent Dachimawa Lee to recover the fabled statue and reveal the dark plot behind the theft. The first attempted operation fails miserably, losing both the statue and his sexy partner. Agent Lee discovers that the failure was an inside job and fueled by rage of revenge, he must face off with the shadowy figure behind the plot on the snowy field of Switzerland where the statue is believed to be hidden.

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