Three North Korean spies are in a South Korean village on a secret mission. Won Ryu-han, a well-trained hitman, has to pretend to be the village idiot, while his colleagues pretend to be a trainee musician and student. They wait patiently for orders from Pyongyang.
The longer their stay lasts, the stronger their bonds with the villagers become. Then, after a regime change in Pyongyang, the mission is ended. The order is: commit suicide or kill each other, because all traces have to be erased. But are the men willing to die for their country?
This is where the film changes into a real action film, in which the difference between good and evil, in other words South and North, is fought out on a knife edge. A box-office hit in South Korea, partly due to the popular actors and the fans of the 'webtoon' on which the film is based. With this film, Jang Cheol-Soo offers an interesting perspective on the shaky balance between North and South Korea.
- Director
- Jang Cheol-Soo
- Premiere
- European premiere
- Country of production
- South Korea
- Year
- 2013
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 123'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Korean
- Producer
- Kim Young-Min
- Production Company
- MCMC Production
- Sales
- Showbox/Mediaplex, Inc
- Screenplay
- Kim Bang-Hyun, Yun Hong-Gi
- Cinematography
- Choi Sang-Ho
- Editor
- Kim Sun-Min
- Production Design
- Kim Jong-Woo
- Sound Design
- Wave Lab
- Music
- Jang Young-Gyu, Dalparan
- Cast
- Kim Soo-Hyun, Park Ki-Woong
- Website
- http://showbox.co.kr/english/Lineup/synopsis.asp?MVCode=JA130118