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The Killer
While his girlfriend is away on a trip, retired assassin Bang Ui-kang is tasked with looking after her friend's 17-year-old daughter. After a street attack, Bang Ui-kang becomes embroiled in a murder investigation and dangerous trafficking gang.
2022 · Directed by Choi Jae-hoon · 95 min · Action · Crime · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 11 frames
Tagline
Mission: save the girl.
Plot
Bang Ui-gang is a retired assassin who has settled down with his wife, Hyeon-soo. One day, Hyeon-soo tells Ui-gang that she is going on a holiday in Jeju together with her best friend, and requests that he take care of 17-year-old Kim Yoon-ji, the daughter of her best friend. Though reluctant at first, Ui-gang eventually gives in. After sending Hyeon-soo and Yoon-ji's stepmother off in the day, Ui-gang fetches Yoon-ji to Hongdae at night, and goes home after telling her to stay at her friend's house for a few days. Later at home, he gets awakened by Yoon-ji's call asking for help because her stomach hurts and immediately goes to find her, only to realise later that she faked being sick to get him to come pick her up. However, after Yoon-ji gets a text message, she tells Ui-gang to go home first.
Ui-gang heads home and drives away even though he looks back to see Yoon-ji riding away on a bike with several others. After receiving a text from his wife asking how Yoon-ji is doing, Ui-gang decides to turn back to find her, managing to track her eventual location through a tracking device, which he placed in her wallet earlier. Finding her being threatened by several delinquents, led by Sung-yeon, Ui-gang beats them up and brings Yoon-ji back home. The next night, Ui-gang and Yoon-ji are on the way back home, passing by the same place where he beat up the delinquents. He is stopped by Detective Lee Young-ho, who tells him that there is a murder case in the venue, and then lets him drive off.
The next morning, Detective Lee visits Ui-gang, suspecting him of being a part of the murder, and telling him about Yoon-ji's situation. Ui-gang understands her situation as he recalls a flashback which showed him and a teenage girl who wanted to kill herself. Sung-yeon calls Yoon-ji and Ui-gang intercepts the call, where he agrees to meet up, as Sung-yeon has the knife used in the murders, and that knife has Ui-gang's fingerprints. Though Sung-yeon tell Ui-gang to call her when he reaches a certain location, he is able to track her down because she has Yoon-ji's wallet (with the tracker still inside). Ui-gang escapes with the knife after fighting a Russian killer named Yuri, who is also trained in the Spetsnaz. He returns home, only to find Yoon-ji has been kidnapped.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Written by: Nam Ji-woong
- Music: Jeong Hyun-soo
- Production design: Kang Dong-hun
Cast
- Jang Hyuk as Bang Ui-kang
- Lee Seo-young as Kim Yoon-ji
- Bang Eun-jeong as Sung-yeon
- Bruce Khan as Yuri
- Lee Seung-joon as Detective Lee
- Yoo Seo-jin as Divorced Woman
- Shin Seung-hwan as Park Hyung-joo
- Hong Seo-jun as Kim Jung-hoon
- Lee Chae-young as Hyun-soo
- Choi Ki-seob as "Birthmark"
Production
- Country: South Korea
- Language: Korean
- Studios: M-Line Distribution, iHQ
- Box office: $595,112
- Themes: assassin, based on novel or book, kidnapping
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