South Korean thriller The Chaser is fascinatingly ambiguous. The lead is Jung Ho, a former detective played by Yoon-Suk Kim, who over the years has given in to cynicism, trading in his badge for a higher-paying living as a low-life pimp, though it has clearly not made him a happy man, or rich for that matter. In fact he’s broke, in part because he put large down payments on several new prostitutes who disappeared before they’d cleared their (and his) debts. He had assumed they’d simply run off. But, as the film starts, another girl has gone missing, Mi-Jin, and now he’s having second thoughts because he realizes that all of the missing girls were contacted by someone at the same telephone number. This sets the star scrambling to find out what’s happened, and I can tell you right now the results are going to be violent and bleak...