#yaksha: ruthless operations

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FILMS IN 2022: yaksha: ruthless operations (2022) — dir. na hyun

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An incomplete summary of everyone being “mean” to Han Ji Hoon in Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (2022)

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Jeong Dae ♡ Lizzie

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[goawaywithjae]

"Doctor Cha" has a lot going on, addressing infidelity, adoption, a Ponzi scheme, the value of a stay-at-home mother, and the true meaning of friendship. Jeong-suk (Uhm Jung-hwa) is her family's doormat. Once a promising resident who had better grades in medical school than her husband, In-ho (Kim Byung-chul), she quit working to raise their two children.

I was really hoping this wasn't going to be a K-drama about a woman who takes back her husband. The writers did a good job of keeping viewers on our toes, with a satisfying ending that tied up all the loose ends nicely. My second review is on the spy thriller film "Yaksha: Ruthless Operations," which was surprisingly entertaining. I say surprisingly, because I got 20 minutes into this series last year and shelved it. I like it much better this go round...

[phs-enthusiast]

Park Hae-soo as Han Ji-hoon

Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (2022)

[princeofjinhae]

Obsessed with tattooed jinyoung in yaksha driving off into the sunset ugh so gorgeous 💚

[highflyerwings]

That post about Kihyun and Inguk has me thinking about Kangin and Jihoon. Because of course. It makes total sense. JUST GO WITH IT.

Anyway, I’m thinking suits. Formal wear, specifically. I’m thinking that end of the movie scene never happens. Kangin doesn’t call Jihoon back in. He wants him to live a safe life so he completely ghosts him. (Maybe he’s discomfited by just how often his thoughts turn to Jihoon) But then! They run into each other at a formal event. Kangin is maybe working a job and Jihoon was invited.

Either way. The first time post events of the film they meet each other looking like this:

DISCUSS.

SORRY this took me so long I kept getting distracted.

We love a good suit kink discussion, don't we.

So let's get into it.

Jihoon, for all his Old Hollywood charm and classic good looks, is awkward. He hasn't yet learned how to play the part in a crowd. Not like Kangin. Especially not at a fancy event like this. He hasn't yet learned how to master his innate abilities of turning his charm on and off at will, to direct it at the right person. He hasn't learned how to blend in. He has good instincts, and that's what caught Kangin's attention at first, but he's new at this and it shows.

But then...Jihoon's not on a case tonight.

Kangin is.

And there may have been some small part of Kangin that was thrilled by the idea of being back in Seoul, by the possibility of running into Jihoon tonight. Of bumping into him amongst the crowd of the self-important elite and the dates on their arms. He wondered if Jihoon would be there with someone, and then he shook himself from the fantasy. He chastised himself for daydreaming. Feeling foolish for dreaming up a scenario where he ran into the very man he was trying so hard to forget (for Jihoon's own safety, he told himself), in a setting where Jihoon wasn't even likely to be to begin with. He went back to pretending his thoughts didn't drift to the man more often than not, wondering what he was doing, where he was, who he was with, if he was okay, if he was staying safe...if Jihoon was thinking about him. He felt ridiculous. He felt like a teenager with a crush, and he hated himself for it.

But halfway through the evening, nursing a whiskey alone in a quiet corner, keeping an eye on his mark across the room -- some snobby lawyer type who was either intel or a problem, Kangin hadn't quite decided yet -- he saw him.

Jihoon was chatting with someone, a glass in one hand, a smile on his face, looking so typically Jihoon, somehow completely at home and out of his depth all at once, and Kangin wanted to laugh. And maybe he did a little bit, if the glances people shot his direction were any indication.

He watches Jihoon for a few minutes longer, taking in the long length of him in his fancy black suit and bowtie, a far cry from the cheap thing Kangin had first met him in. He looked expensive. He looked like he belonged on a red carpet somewhere halfway across the world. He looked...good.

His dark hair, and that infuriatingly bright smile that always creased the corners of his dark eyes...with a little training, and confidence, he could look powerful.

And wasn't that a thought...

Kangin watched Jihoon laugh, and bring his glass to his lips at the same time their eyes met across the room, and Kangin's stomach did an embarrassing little flip. Jihoon looked like a deer caught in the headlights for all of a second before he was turning casually back to the other person, back to looking like the movie star he had no right looking like, and Kangin was left wondering if maybe he'd been mistaken. Maybe Jihoon hadn't recognized him. Maybe it wasn't even Jihoon at all. Maybe Kangin had finally snapped. But the way he kept glancing in Kangin's direction out of the corner of his eye told Kangin otherwise. The way his back stiffened when Kangin stood up, the way the smile on his face turned tense and forced, told Kangin that Jihoon had recognized him immediately.

Good.

Kangin thought briefly about walking over to him. Of interrupting his conversation. But instead he just made his way back to the bar, ordered another drink, and waited.

Across the room Jihoon was in panic mode.

Kangin?

Why the fuck was Kangin there.

Was he on a job?

Was the rest of the team there?

Was Jihoon in danger? Suddenly everyone in the room became a suspect. Of what? Jihoon had no idea, but if Kangin was there, something was up, and there was a small voice in the back of Jihoon's head that was excited by the prospect. There was an even smaller, but equally excited voice that wondered if maybe Kangin was there for him.

Jihoon excused himself from the conversation, and slowly made his way in the direction he'd saw Kangin go.

The bar, he quickly realized...of course it was the bar. And the second he saw him sitting there, it was a wonder Jihoon even recognized him to begin with.

Hair slicked back and styled, clean shaven, black suit from head to toe, he looked...presentable...respectable even...he looked...

"You look nice," Jihoon said, for lack of a segue. For lack of a better word than "nice" because Kangin looked so much more than nice. There was a word on the tip of Jihoon's tongue, one he'd never said to another man before, and it made a blush creep into his cheeks just thinking it.

Jihoon wondered if this was the version of Kangin that Ozawa had met all those years ago. He could picture Ozawa being seduced by this Kangin. This Kangin was commanding in a way Jihoon hadn't ever suspected he could be. A fleeting memory of a bar not so different from this one flickered through his mind, from when he first met Ozawa, how ill-fitting he and Kangin had looked together, but how deeply their history seemed to run. Jihoon couldn't picture the two of them teaming up together then, but looking at Kangin now, it's not a stretch at all. This is a man born to persuade, and command, and Jihoon felt powerful just standing next to him.

Kangin eyed him in his usual way. Regarding him to a standard only Kangin knew.

"And you look like you saw a ghost back there."

That seemed to set something off in Jihoon who turned an annoyed glare on Kangin and lowered his voice to say, "To be fair, I thought you were dead. Can't blame me for being a little surprised to see you up and about."

Kangin just laughed. He'd forgotten how much fun it was to push Jihoon's buttons. He'd missed this.

So anyways I think the two would have VERY much fun seeing each other looking so dashing. I think they'd have a LOT of thoughts about just how good the other looked. And I wonder if maybe they had a few more drinks at the bar one of them could trick the other one into going home with them.

[kero-verdade]

Park Haesoo is really in his Netflix bag lately. good for him!!!

[fulltimehabibti]

notes on yaksha: ruthless operations

song jaerim still annoyingly sexy. so sexy i'm furious rn.

so smart to lean into the homoerotic kdrama superfandom by casting the dilf from the merciless and the twink from the devil judge

lee el still sexy

YDG?!!!!????

sol kyung gu continues to be the king of mean bisexuals

park hae soo and sol kyung gu speedrunning through every bl trope in the first half of the movie

song jae rim don't you ever cut your fucking hair ever again

i don't think the japanese would ever care this much about korean unification tbh

r.i.p every single one of park hae soo's internal organs

[the-pink-quill]

What if Kang Yohan met Gaon way before canon, in a completely different setting? What if he trained this errant stray into a lethal protector for his niece, only to let him go years later, unable to deal with the complications his feelings brought to his plans?

And what if they meet again, forced to be partners while trying to save the day?

[sandiegokpop]

Did no one gif Jinyoung getting beat by his team in Yaksha when he tried to go after Nike after they destroyed their base? Poor bb, lol

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Park Hae Soo as Han Ji Hoon, in a hoodie casually eating and talking Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (2022)

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Jinyoung as Jeong Dae in Yaksha: Ruthless Operations

[timotey]

Yaksha: Ruthless Operations

I watched this movie for Park Jin Young who played a supporting part in this movie - and who was as awesome as always, of course. And to watch him kick butt and be all ruthless and smart and cunning was a pleasure, too, of course.

I loved the action and Yaksha's core team, their loyalty to him - but I simply couldn't stand Prosecutor Han aka Nike. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't because of his need to uphold the law, not at all. But I hated that he behaved like a bull in a china shop once he joined the team in the field, getting them almost killed time and time again. When I'm dropped into a situation I don't know anything about, I don't behave like an arrogant power hungry know-it-all. I keep my trap shut and follow the lead of those who actually do know what's going on. He irked me so badly!

But I did love the ending, the scenes while the credits were rolling. That was awesome. And if there's a sequel - which is quite uncertain now, considering Netflix's current money trouble - I will watch it because I want to see Yaksha's team again!

Rating: 7/10

[tinyreviews]

This feels like a premise for a series being compressed into a movie. And this isn’t the first Korean movie to give me this vibe.

It seems like they are meaning to make a sequel. I feel the story and franchise would have been better served as a series rather than a movie.

Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (Korean: 야차; Hanja: 夜叉; RR: Yacha) is a 2022 South Korean spy action film directed by Na Hyeon. The film stars Sol Kyung-gu and Park Hae-soo.