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IL-SUNG BOK (late 50s) is the leader of an organized crime family known as THE TETRAS. While smuggling endangered fish, YEONG BOK(24), son of Il-Sung, meets TAK (50s) who is the leader of their rival gang, THE BETTAS. The gangs starts to fight against each other. While THE TAILOR (40s, he also goes by Tailor), a humble working man with a perfectly knotted necktie, is sewing, there is a sudden knock from the back door. He lets his beautiful customer SOOAE to leave, carefully opens a hidden door, and enters to a small medical workshop. Tak, the injured Bettas, Yeong, and the injured Tetras are standing outside waiting for the Tailor’s help. The Tailor confidently sews the wounded flesh in an orderly fashion. After Tailor finishes his work, Il-Sung …show more content…
It is revealed that Soo-ae is Tak’s wife. While putting on a racy dress, she deliberately tears the strap of her dress. Tak calls Tailor to come by and fix her dress, then he will take double off on Tailor’s debt. Tailor comes by at the villa and is surprised after realizing his secret crush was Tak’s wife. While Tailor nervously fixes the dress, Tak comes in and warns him to not get any funny feelings about his wife and also tells him to pay for his debt on time this …show more content…
After a bloody fight, Yeong holds Tak’s brother JI-TAE as a hostage. Tak also holds one of Yeong’s friends as a hostage. They let go of each other and Yeong leaves the club with his friends. After the fight, Tak rushes into the Tailor shop with Ji-Tae and injured Bettas. Tailor says that he cannot help them since he retired after the peace treaty. Instead, he wants his debt to be cleared out and extra money for sewing and curing them. Tak reluctantly accepts the deal, and Tailor happily begins his operation.

MELLOW YELLOW (late 50s), the famed assassin, arrives in Korea and heads to the Betta hideout. Tak and Ji-Tae send out Mellow Yellow to kill the Tetras and bring their ears. That night, the Tetras are hanging in a club in downtown Seoul. Mellow Yellow enters the club, looks for the Tetras, ruthlessly kills them and cuts their ears. Rest of the Tetras follow him to the Betta’s hideout and strike in, but they are brutally killed by Mellow Yellow.

At the same time, Tailor finds a ticket to the Grand Theatre inside his

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