Hunt
Two rivals, a hidden truth.
6.7 / 10
131 minutes
2022-08-10
Japanese
KR
Actors :
Lee Jung-jae, Jung Woo-sung, Jeon Hye-jin, Heo Sung-tae, Go Youn-jung, Kim Jong-soo, Jeong Man-sik, Lim Hyung-kook, Jung Kyung-soon, Jeong Jae-seong, Song Young-chang, Hwang Jung-min, Lee Sung-min, Yoo Jae-myung, Kang Kyung-hun
Description
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.
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
11/17/2022, 6:05:24 AM
"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 fin...
MovieGuys
11/17/2022, 10:43:57 PM
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. ...