GONG stars as the leader of a violent anti-Japanese Korean independence faction that seeks to smuggle a bomb from Shanghai to Seoul to target Japanese military facilities. Meanwhile, SONG, who has worked with director KIM on three prior occasions - The Quiet Family (1998), The Foul King (2000) and The Good, The Bad, And The Weird (2008) - plays a Japanese police officer tracking the group down.
Earlier this year, GONG appeared alongside JEON Do-yeon in LEE Yoon-ki’s A Man and A Woman, and he will also be seen this summer in YEON Sang-ho’s live-action debut, the zombie thriller Train to Busan, which will feature as a midnight screening at next month’s Cannes Film Festival. SONG most recently starred in LEE Joon-ik’s period drama The Throne, as well the 2013 features Snowpiercer (by BONG Joon-ho), The Face Reader and The Attorney.
The film is expected to bow in the second half of the year. Warner Bros. is currently in production on their second Korean title, the thriller Single Rider with LEE Byung-hun and KONG Hyo-jin.
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Kim Jee-woon, Song Kang-ho
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