Our Art of Action season continues with this stunning vengeance film that draws its inspiration from western classic Kill Bill.
Sook-Hee (Ok-Vin Kim) is a trained assassin who was born to kill. She was just a little girl when the training started in Yanbian, China. After the death of her mentor, with the chance of starting a new life, she comes to South Korea as a government agent. They promise her she will be free after ten years of service. So she begins her new life as a theatre actress. But soon two men Joong-Sang (Ha-Kyun Shin) and Hyun-Soo (Jun Sung) appear in her new life. Sook-Hee begins to find deep dark secrets about her past—and eventually takes matters into her own hands.
"Frenetic, kinetic action meets satisfyingly soapy drama. See it before everyone tries to copy the best bits." – Empire Magazine
This screening will be introduced by Dr Chi-Yun Shin, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. She is one of the first film scholars in the UK to raise the profile of South Korean cinema, as evidenced by the collection New Korean Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2005). She also co-edited East Asian Film Noir (Bloomsbury, 2015) and organised the South Korean Women’s Cinema conference (2021), funded by the Academy of Korean Studies.
- Director: Jung Byung-gil
- Cast: Kim Ok-bin, Shin Ha-kyun, Sung Jun
- Languge: Korean with English subtitles
