"The Cannabis King" is set in Busan, South Korea in the 1970s, and tells the story of Lee Tau sen, played by Song Kang ho, who rises from a bottomless smuggler to a legendary drug lord. The prototype of the story is a generation of drug lords who started with smuggling in the 1970s and later entered the drug manufacturing and trafficking industry and rose up. The director said,
"The Cannabis King" is set in Busan, South Korea in the 1970s, and tells the story of Lee Tau sen, played by Song Kang ho, who rises from a bottomless smuggler to a legendary drug lord. The prototype of the story is a generation of drug lords who started with smuggling in the 1970s and later entered the drug manufacturing and trafficking industry and rose up. The director said,