Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Kim Yoon-seok | ... | Park Cheo-Won | |
Jung-woo Ha | ... | Prosecutor Choi Hwan | |
Hae-Jin Yoo | ... | Han Byung-Yong (as Hae-jin Yoo) | |
Kim Tae-ri | ... | Yeon-Hee | |
Hee-soon Park | ... | Detective Jo Han-Kyung | |
Hee-joon Lee | ... | Reporter Yoon Sang-Sam (as Hee-jun Lee) | |
Eui-sung Kim | ... | Lee Boo-Young | |
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Jong-soo Kim | ... | Park Jung-Ki |
Dal-su Oh | ... | Journalist | |
Chang-Seok Ko | ... | Journalist | |
Seong-kun Mun | ... | Jang Se-Dong (as Sung-Keun Moon) | |
Woo Hyeon | ... | Kang Min-Chang | |
Woo-jin Jo | ... | Park Jong-Chul's uncle | |
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Ji-hwan Park | ... | Detective |
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Seung-mok Yoo | ... | Yoo Jung-Bang |
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and begins looking into the case for the truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.
Amazing film! One of the best films I have seen in a while. The film starts with a simple plot and a web of characters and a subplot develops. The direction of the camera and the pauses to show names (similar to kill bill) adds a bit of humor. The beginning of the movie has a lot of humor but slowly fades and transitions into the heart of the movie. The slower introduction of characters helps build the story. I would like to see more background on some characters as that tends to be revealed in different parts of the movie.