NR | 2h 11min | Drama, Thriller | Dec. 2, 2022
From the 1960s through the 1980s, South Korea’s blistering economic growth made it one of the so-called “Four Asian Tigers.” They also evolved from an authoritarian state into a full-fledged democracy, but that was a more difficult transition. The government in-fighting was so brutal that it even encompassed the real-life assassination of a president in 1979.
As this film opens, two rival South Korean spies must take subsequent presidential assassination threats seriously, but they each suspect the other of conspiring with the North Korean regime, in director Lee Jung-jae’s “Hunt.”
Park Pyong-ho (Lee Jung-jae) is responsible for foreign intelligence missions, while Kim Jung-do (Jung Woo-sung) oversees domestic operations. Park knows him well, because Kim was his interrogator during the late-1970s purge. Park was eventually cleared, but his body still bears the scars of their encounters….