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ActionMysteryDrama

Hunt

- Two rivals, a hidden truth.

After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other.

Release Date : 2022-08-10

Language :JapaneseEnglishPortugueseKorean

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Sanai PicturesArtist Studio

Production Country : South Korea

Alternative Titles : Hunt

Cast

Lee Jung-jae

Character Name : Park Pyong-ho

Original Name : 이정재

Gender : Male

Jung Woo-sung

Character Name : Kim Jung-do

Original Name : 정우성

Gender : Male

Jeon Hye-jin

Character Name : Bang Ju-kyung

Original Name : 전혜진

Gender : Female

Heo Sung-tae

Character Name : Jang Chul-sung

Original Name : 허성태

Gender : Male

Go Youn-jung

Character Name : Cho Yoo-jung

Original Name : 고윤정

Gender : Female

Kim Jong-soo

Character Name : Director Ahn

Original Name : 김종수

Gender : Male

Jeong Man-sik

Character Name : Yang Bo-sung

Original Name : 정만식

Gender : Male

Lim Hyung-kook

Character Name : Transposer

Original Name : 임형국

Gender : Male

Jung Kyung-soon

Character Name : Chun Bo-san

Original Name : 정경순

Gender : Female

Jeong Jae-seong

Character Name : Pyo Dong-ho

Original Name : 정재성

Gender : Male

Song Young-chang

Character Name : Director Kang

Original Name : 송영창

Gender : Male

Hwang Jung-min

Character Name : Lieutenant Ri

Original Name : 황정민

Gender : Male

Lee Sung-min

Character Name : Cho Won-sik

Original Name : 이성민

Gender : Male

Yoo Jae-myung

Character Name : CEO Choi

Original Name : 유재명

Gender : Male

Kang Kyung-hun

Character Name : Jung-do's Wife

Original Name : 강경헌

Gender : Female

Im Sung-jae

Character Name : Security Command Investigator

Original Name : 임성재

Gender : Male

Jeong Seong-mo

Character Name : General Kim Soon-sik

Original Name : 정성모

Gender : Male

Paul Battle

Character Name : CIA Chief of East Asia

Original Name : Paul Battle

Gender : Male

Kim Hak-seon

Character Name : Shin Ki-cheol

Original Name : 김학선

Gender : Male

Oh Man-seok

Character Name : Reporter Kang

Original Name : 오만석

Gender : Male

Andreas Fronk

Character Name : Washington Assassin

Original Name : 안드레아스 프론크

Gender : Male

Lee Chae-eun

Character Name : Yang Bo-sung's Daughter

Original Name : Lee Chae-eun

Gender : Female

Song Duk-ho

Character Name : Male Student 1

Original Name : 송덕호

Gender : Male

Jang Seo-kyung

Character Name : Female Student 1

Original Name : Jang Seo-kyung

Gender : Female

Kim Chan-hyung

Character Name : Domestic Department Agent 1

Original Name : 김찬형

Gender : Male

Kim Hyeong-beom

Character Name : Domestic Department Agent 3

Original Name : 김형범

Gender : Male

Kyung Sung-hwan

Character Name : Domestic Department Agent 4

Original Name : Kyung Sung-hwan

Gender : Male

Yoon Jeong-seop

Character Name : International Department Agent 1

Original Name : 윤정섭

Gender : Male

Choi Woo-jun

Character Name : International Department Agent 2

Original Name : Choi Woo-jun

Gender : Male

Park Sung-woong

Character Name : Tokyo Branch Agent 1

Original Name : 박성웅

Gender : Male

Jo Woo-jin

Character Name : Tokyo Branch Agent 2

Original Name : 조우진

Gender : Male

Kim Nam-gil

Character Name : Tokyo Branch Agent 3

Original Name : 김남길

Gender : Male

Ju Ji-hoon

Character Name : Tokyo Branch Agent 4

Original Name : 주지훈

Gender : Male

Cha Rae-hyung

Character Name : Tokyo Branch Agent 5

Original Name : 차래형

Gender : Male

Lee Han-ju

Character Name : Man in the Tunnel

Original Name : Lee Han-ju

Gender : Male

Go Seo-hee

Character Name : Dong-ho's Wife

Original Name : 고서희

Gender : Female

Son Kyoung-won

Character Name : Ambassador Lee Ju-myung

Original Name : 손경원

Gender : Male

Lee San-ho

Character Name : Head of Data Analysis Department

Original Name : Lee San-ho

Gender : Male

Cha Woo-jin

Character Name : Bunker Guard

Original Name : 차우진

Gender : Male

Park Min-jeong

Character Name : Jeon Gyeong-ja

Original Name : Park Min-jeong

Gender : Female

Son Seung-beom

Character Name : Tortured Student 3

Original Name : Son Seung-beom

Gender : Male

Moon Yoo-seong

Character Name : Tortured Student 8

Original Name : Moon Yoo-seong

Gender : Male

Jonathan Ehren Groff

Character Name : CIA Agent 1

Original Name : Jonathan Ehren Groff

Gender : Male

Joe Nowell

Character Name : CIA Agent 5

Original Name : Joe Nowell

Gender : Male

Josh Newton

Character Name : Washington Assassin

Original Name : Josh Newton

Gender : Male

Moon Jung-dae

Character Name : Moksungsa Man

Original Name : Moon Jung-dae

Gender : Male

Lee Ga-kyung

Character Name : Jung-do's Secretary

Original Name : 이가경

Gender : Female

Choe Min

Character Name : Moksungsa Man

Original Name : Choe Min

Gender : Male

Park Young-jun

Character Name : North Korean Army

Original Name : 박영준

Gender : Male

Kim Dong-hyung

Character Name : North Korean Army

Original Name : 김동형

Gender : Male

Kim Eun-woo

Character Name : North Korean Army

Original Name : 김은우

Gender : Male

Reviews

C

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-11-17

"Park" (director Lee Jung-Jae) and "Kim" (Jung Woo-sung) run the foreign and domestic teams of the South Korean equivalent of the CIA when an attempt is made to assassinate their President whilst on a trip to Washington DC. This politician came to power in a coup, in the 1980s, and he has no shortage of enemies. As the story develops, we discover that there is enormous pressure on these men to find out how the would-be killers knew so much about their boss's itinerary. Is there a mole - the legendary "Donglim", and could he/she have infiltrated their organisation? Pretty soon, a climate of fear and angry competition causes these two men to come to loggerheads as they try to detect the spy and keep their jobs, and they resort to ever more unscrupulous and violent means to achieve their goal before a summit in Bangkok. As is so often the case when an actor directs a film, the production can lack for an objective eye. The story really loses it's way once or twice as the investigations progress. I found it quite difficult to follow who was doing what to whom; who was on whose team and the pace was really quite sluggish at times. There is a great deal of dialogue but none of that really serves to build the characters into people in whom we could readily invest, and there are a couple of cluttering sub-plots that make little sense, or add much richness, until right at the very end. That ending has a twist that, though intriguing, is a bit contrived and I found rather implausible and I am afraid that I left the cinema underwhelmed.

M

MovieGuys

@MovieGuys

2022-11-17

Hunt is a fictionalised tale, based in a very dark period, of South Korea's recent history. Superficially, Hunt is an espionage tale but, more than that, its true core theme, examines the price of becoming locked into a system that is cruel and dehumanising. In this case, a dictatorial, South Korean, military government, that came to power in the 1980's, off the back of a bloody coup d'etat. The main characters, in their own way, try to minimise the suffering and death of ordinary people but the cycle is unbreakable and inevitably, any attempt to end suffering and death always leads to more. This is because the system of government itself, in North and South Korea, is broken and dictatorial. There's a lot of pretty gut wrenching violence and scenes of torture, in this film. As participants, willing or otherwise, its impossible to like any of the main characters. That said, you can empathise with their efforts, to try and put an end to the soul destroying system, they find themselves trapped within. In summary, well acted, unrelentingly cruel and violent, fast paced, with a sophisticated, underlying message, about the price of being part of a system of dehumanising tyranny.