On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae (Park Won Sang) is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be ...
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Title: National Security (2012)
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Jang-Su Bae | ... | President |
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Kim Jung-gi | ||
| Eui-sung Kim | ... | (as Kim Eui-Seong) | |
| Cheon-hee Lee | |||
| Kyeong-yeong Lee | ... | Lee Guen-an | |
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Kyeong-Yeong Lee | ... | LEE Doo-han |
| Seong-kun Mun | |||
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Gye-nam Myeong | ||
| Won-Sang Park | ... | KIM Jong-tae | |
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Dong-soo Seo | ... | Biak |
| Hee-Jin Woo | |||
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On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae (Park Won Sang) is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration. Written by anonymous
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26 April 2014 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
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National Security is unfortunately based on true events. South Koreans have a dark past behind them, and they are terribly good at making movies that leaves traces. National Security is one of those movies.
Most of the action takes place in a room where an innocent man is being tortured. The year is 1984, South Korea is a military regime and the man being tortured is accused of being a communist who tries starting a riot in South Korea. He denies it, and then starts the torture.
Water Torture is never the same again after you've seen what they do to the innocent man in National Security. You get really tired after 1 hour, but the film runs on only more torture. You have got to not leave traces, so for the torture they used are water and electricity. It feels very realistic, where we see a naked man getting a proper water belly.
As with so many other splendid South Korean movies are there, National Security is an important film that thankfully shows progress for the country that will always have a dark shadow hanging over it. This is probably a great film, it is almost not wrong to call National Security a great film, but it is a quality film that is shocking, frightening, very well played and well made. The creeps well below the skin and you will not forget the movie soon.