Private Eye (Korean: 그림자 살인; lit. Shadow Murder) is a 2009 South Korean neo-noir mystery thriller film directed by Park Dae-min.[2]
| Private Eye | |
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 Theatrical poster | |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 그림자 살인 |
| Hanja | 그림자 殺人 |
| Revised Romanization | Geurimja sarin |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kŭrimja sarin |
| Directed by | Park Dae-min |
| Written by | Park Dae-min Lee Yeong-jong Yoon Seon-hui |
| Produced by | Lee Sang-yong Han Seon-kyu |
| Starring | Hwang Jung-min Ryu Deok-hwan |
| Cinematography | Choi Chan-min |
| Edited by | Nam Na-yeong |
| Music by | Hwang Sang-jun |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Languages | Korean Japanese |
| Box office | US$10.1 million[1] |
Plot
editSeoul, 1910. Hong Jin-ho, Joseon's first detective, travels around solving trivial family disputes for pocket money as a private detective. However, he is determined to go to America someday and is saving up for the trip. Then one night, Gwang-soo, a medical physician in training, discovers a corpse in the woods and secretly takes it to practice dissecting. But the corpse turns out to be the son of Seoul's most powerful man. While planning to flee in the middle of the night and afraid of murder accusations, Gwang-soo meets Jin-ho, and asks him to find the killer. When another corpse turns up in the woods, murdered in the same way as the first victim, Jin-ho and Gwang-soo use a piece of cloth they find in the victim's mouth as the lead they need to bring them one step closer to the real killer.
Cast
edit- Hwang Jung-min as Hong Jin-ho (private detective)
- Ryu Deok-hwan as Jang Gwang-soo (medical student)
- Uhm Ji-won as Soon-deok (inventor)
- Oh Dal-su as Oh Young-dal (police officer)
- Yoon Je-moon as Eok-kwan (circus master)
- Go Jun as Herb doctor
- Yoo Seung-mok
Box office
editAccording to its distributor CJ Entertainment, Private Eye attracted more than 554,000 viewers nationwide in the four days since its premiere on April 2, 2009, making it #1 at the South Korean box office.[3] As of May 10, 2009, the total tickets sold domestically was 1,907,094.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Geulimja Salin (Shadow Kill) (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
- ^ Shin, Hae-in (24 March 2009). "Epic film noir rich in period detail". Yonhap. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
- ^ Ko, Kyoung-seok (6 April 2009). '그림자 살인', 50만명 돌파하며 박스오피스 1위 [Private Eye takes box office no.1, selling 500,000 tickets]. 10Asia (in Korean). Retrieved 2014-11-04.
- ^ "Korean Box Office". Hancinema. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
External links
edit- Official website (in Korean)
- Private Eye at Naver (in Korean)
- Private Eye at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
- Private Eye at IMDb
- Private Eye at HanCinema