Tazza: The Hidden Card

Tazza: The Hidden Card (lit. Tazza: Hand of God) is a 2014 South Korean crime film directed by Kang Hyeong-cheol based on Huh Young-man and Kim Se-yeong's manhwa of the same name. It is followed by Tazza: One Eyed Jack, released in 2019.

After Ham Dae-gil enters the gambling world, he is set up as the fall guy in a crooked deal. To get revenge, he enters a final game which could be fatal to the loser.

Cast

 * Choi Seung-hyun (T.O.P) as Ham Dae-gil
 * Jung Yoon-seok as young Dae-gil
 * Shin Se-kyung as Heo Mi-na
 * Kwak Do-won as Jang Dong-sik
 * Lee Hanee as President Woo
 * Yoo Hae-jin as Ko Gwang-ryeol
 * Kim Yoon-seok as Agui
 * Han Joon-woo as Choi Wang-geun
 * Lee Geung-young as Kko-jang
 * Kim In-kwon as Heo Gwang-chul, Mi-na's older brother
 * Oh Jung-se as Director Seo
 * Park Hyo-joo as Little Madam
 * Go Soo-hee as Madam Song
 * Kim Joon-ho as Yu-ryeong ("Ghost")
 * Lee Dong-hwi as Jjari ("Worth")
 * Kim Won-hae as Artist Jo
 * Lee Jun-hyeok as Benjie ("Pliers"), Dae-gil's helper
 * Kim Min-sang as Dr. Hwang
 * Jo Kyung-hyun as young Mr. Kim
 * Son Sang-gyeong as Father Jang
 * Park Soo-young as Chang-sik
 * Im Jung-eun as Dae-gil's mother
 * Lee Dong-yong as Auto repair owner
 * Ha Seong-gwang as The Dark Knight of Ansan
 * Song Jae-ryong as Gambling den bouncer
 * Kim Dae-myung as Billiards hall owner
 * Yoon Kyung-ho as Gambler in billiards hall
 * Nicky Lee as Ppappa
 * Bae Yu-ram as "Halibut"
 * Ahn Jae-hong as Woon-do
 * Jung Da-won as Joong-ki
 * Cha Seung-ho as Bribed detective
 * Kwak Soo-jung as Wife of auto repair owner
 * Lee Joon-ik as O-ring man (cameo)
 * Oh Yeon-soo as Woman at the observatory (cameo)
 * Yeo Jin-goo as Agui's pupil (cameo)
 * Cha Tae-hyun as Radio DJ (cameo)

Production
Due to the box office success of Choi Dong-hoon's gambling epic Tazza: The High Rollers (it attracted 6.84 million in admissions in 2006, making it one of the highest-grossing Korean films that year), production company Sidus FNH announced a sequel, with Jang Joon-hwan originally attached as screenwriter/director and a release planned for late 2008. But pre-production was later halted, and Jang pulled out of the film.

Speculation about a sequel continued, given that Tajja, the famous local comic series (or "manhwa") illustrated by Huh Young-man and written by Kim Se-yeong that served as the 2006 film's source material comes in four volumes, each with entirely different characters and settings. Tazza 2 is based on the second volume Tazza: Hand of God, which was published on November 16, 2006, by Random House Korea.

In 2012, Kang Hyeong-cheol signed on to direct the sequel, and casting was finalized in late 2013, with Choi Seung-hyun as lead character Ham Dae-gil, the nephew of Goni, the protagonist in Tazza: The High Rollers.

Filming began on January 2, 2014, at a pool hall in Cheongnyangni-dong, Seoul.