Svaha: The Sixth Finger (2019)

Pastor Park works to expose suspicious religious groups. He's hired to look into the cult group Deer Mount. Meanwhile, Police Captain Hwang investigates a murder case and the main suspect is a member of the Deer Mount cult.

Director:

Jae-hyun Jang

Writers:

Kang Full (character created by: Svaha: The Sixth Finger), Jae-hyun Jang

Stars:

Ji-tae Yu, Min Tanaka, Jung-jae Lee

Cast

Credited cast:
Ji-tae Yu	...	(as Ji-tae Yoo)
Min Tanaka	...	Nechoongtenpa
Jung-jae Lee	...	Pastor Park
Seung-chul Baek	...	Geum-Hwa's grandfather
Sang-woo Lee	...	Head Monk
Jin-young Jung	...	Chief Hwang
Jung-min Park	...	Jeong Na-han
Lee Jae-in	...	Geum-hwa
Seon-kyu Jin	...	Monk Hae-an
Kyung-ho Yoon	...	Cattle shed owner
Jung-min Hwang	...	Deaconess Sim
Rae-Hyung Cha	...	Detective Jo
Hong-pa Kim	...	Prison governor (as Kim Hong-Fa)
Geun-Young Kim	...	Agape nun
Soon-bae Cha	...	general affairs Monk

Storyline

Pastor Park works to expose suspicious religious groups. He's hired to look into the cult group Deer Mount. Meanwhile, Police Captain Hwang investigates a murder case and the main suspect is a member of the Deer Mount cult.

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Genres:

Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Release Date:

20 February 2019 (South Korea)

Also Known As:

Sabaha

Company Credits

Production Co:

CJ E&M Film Financing & Investment Entertainment & Comics, CJ Entertainment, Filmmaker R&K

Technical Specs

Runtime:

122 min

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Overall, a good movie

Pastor Park is infamous for his debunking attitude towards religious stigma, cult belief, its bad practices and how it exploits the mind of general people of a society. It ultimately led him to a cult religious group called Deer Mount which happened to be related to lot of murders of young children who were born in 1999.

This film had "The Wailing (2016)" vibe from the beginning for some reason. Story focuses on specific people only. It had a huge potential to work and build some other characters. Only problem of this film is it lacks a good continuation of some characters that they introduced in the movie, completely drops them later as if they don't exist. I wanted to see police and Pastor Park working together.

Jae-hyun Jang is still young and a toddler among other veteran directors. Writers were inexperienced also. What I liked is, I saw they are hard working people; writers, directors..everyone. It shows that they tried their best to make it happen. It's not too long that there will be some good and great masterpiece from them after right amount of experience they achieve.

I have 0 complain about the actors. All did their parts professionally. This is what I like about Korean Film industry, the actors are super veteran when it comes to acting and you won't find anything to complain.

Ending was satisfying. Final 20 minutes of the film is really does the magic, it literally revived the whole film. I really like some of the symbolic messages they conveyed via Dogs, Elephant and Bird; is pure gold attached to Babylonian mythology. Kudos to director and writers for portraying it in such mysterious way.

Cinematography was average. Too many cuts and angle changes in some of the shots. In films like such as this one, it is best to keep a shot as long as possible since sudden cuts and angle change can and will kill some important momentum and it did for this movie.

Overall, really liked the film. I will give it 7. Don't know why it is so low in rating but definitely not a low six film.