Undoing to Premiere in Boston

Friday night (tomorrow) is the start of a limited three day engagement of the latest movie by Chris Chan Lee "Undoing" at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge near the Harvard Campus. There is a special pre-movie reception at Casablanca Restaurant the star Sung Kang (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift) and the producers will be on hand. After the first showing, there will be a special Q & A for attendees too.

"Undoing" also stars Russell Wong, Kelly Hu, Leonardo Nam, Bobby Lee.

The synopsis (wikipedia):

After a mysterious year-long absence, SAM KIM (Sung Kang) returns to Los Angeles determined to find redemption from the past. His mentor and only friend, DON OSA (Tom Bower), is a retired gangster with a parallel desire to leave the former world behind. But as Sam tries to balance revenge with reconciliation, he is drawn back to the shadowy world he left behind. Can Sam undo his mistakes before losing what he came back to save?

The story unfolds as we learn about the night, a year ago, when Sam and JOON (Leonardo Nam) meet for a joyride through Koreatown. Joon has more serious plans for the evening, but they soon go terribly wrong, leaving Sam alone and lost in a world he desperately wants to escape.

A year later, Sam returns to the scene of the crime, and with Don’s help, finishes what he should have done a year ago. But just as things appear to be resolved, we find out that Sam came back not only to avenge Joon’s death, but also to win back his love, VERA (Kelly Hu). Sam locates Vera working as a waitress/bar manager at the Red Room, and they’re suddenly thrown back into their impossible desires for each other; two people who seem hopelessly isolated from the world around them and from each other. Abandoned a year ago, Vera resents Samuel and now finds herself deep in debt and also emotionally entangled with the owner of the Red Room, RANDALL (Jose Zuniga). With no family and no outside resources, Sam must return to the Koreatown streets of his past in attempt to settle Vera’s obligations, as well as his own debts to the past. His reckless naiveté leads him to hustle a corrupt, veteran police detective named KASAWA (Mary Mara). Unbeknownst to others, Kasawa and Sam’s mentor Don share a history in a former generation of inner-city crime. Though the two have led their lives in opposing order: one in law enforcement and the other in crime; they share a unique bond in their attempt to find comfort in the niche they’ve spent a lifetime carving out. But Sam stirs chaos and, in classical noir form, “good” and “bad” are not so easy to differentiate; each character struggles with the conflicting impulses of good and evil in the world around him, and in themselves.