04/05/2015 7pm
Museum of the Moving Image
35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria
Dir. Park Hong-Soo. 2013, 113 mins. With Choi Seung-Hyun (T.O.P.), Han Ye-Ri, Kim You-Jeong. Bending the hard-boiled North Korean spy genre into the confines of an affecting adolescent drama, director Park Hong-soo packs balls-to-the-wall action, political intrigue and poignant romance in one detonating bundle. After the failure of their father, North Korean teenager Myung-hoon (Choi Seung-hyun, aka T.O.P) and his young sister Hye-in (Han Ye-ri) are condemned to a labor camp. To save his sister’s life, Myung-hoon volunteers to become a spy and, posing as a defector, infiltrates the South as a high school boy. Despite his innocent good looks, the young man is actually a mean, highly-trained war machine, cleverly concealing his ability for combat behind his bashful demeanor.
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