The birth of a star director approved by Cannes!
International star actor LEE Jung Jae has helmed his first feature film.
HUNT is directed by one of Korea’s leading actors of his generation, who has starred in many genres such as drama, melodrama, action and others, and became a household name after starring in Netflix Original series Squid Game.
Can the ‘Hunted’ become the ‘Hunter’? After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho (LEE Jung Jae) and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do (JUNG Woo Sung) are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency.
Park Pyong-ho and Kim Jung-do of the Korean Central Intelligence Agencyare tasked with finding a mole within the agency, and learn of a grand plot to assassinate the South Korean president in this spy action drama.
When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other.
In this tense situation where if they cannot find the mole, they may be accused themselves, Pyong-ho and Jung-do slowly start to uncover the truth. In the end, they must deal with an unthinkable plot to assassinate the South Korean president.
Director LEE has used his 30-year experience as an actor to lead fellow filmmakers and cast on the set. While working with his co-stars in front of the camera, he listened to various advice and opinions, and showed what kind of director he is by convincing the cast and swaying their opinions in a way that improved the film.
He also used storyboards and reference images to visualize each shot, and discussed many obstacles with each department in order to promote creativity on the set.If you take a look at directors whose debut film was invited to Cannes, you can’t help but anticipate big things from director LEE Jung Jae.
From Alejandro González Iñárritu whose debut feature Amores Perros was screened at Cannes to Xavier Dolan’s I Killed My Mother who not only directed the film but also played three characters, to YOON Jong Bin and his The Unforgiven and NA Hong Jin with The Chaser. All of these directors became some of the most celebrated filmmakers on the international film stage.
Director LEE Jung Jae will no doubt join them soon.In addition, given the films that were invited to Cannes and went onto become box office hits such as Parasite, Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood, Mad Max: Fury Road and Sicario, there is high anticipation for HUNT as it hopes to satisfy artistic endeavors as well as to reach into the mainstream.
