"Number One", "The Man Who Lives With the King", and "Humint" — three Korean films will arrive side by side in theaters during the Lunar New Year holiday.
On the mid-February Lunar New Year holiday, from "Number One" to "The Man Who Lives With the King" and "Humint," three Korean films will be lined up in theaters to meet audiences. The one-and-only family healing movie "Number One", starring Choi Wooshik, the spy action "Humint", starring Zo In-sung, and the historical drama "The Man Who Lives With the King", starring Yoo Hai Jin, represent new releases across genres that are expected to broaden movie choices during the holiday.
First, the film "Number One", starring Choi Wooshik, Jang Hye-Jin, and Gong Seung-yeon, which opens on Feb. 11, reunites Choi Wooshik and Jang Hye-Jin, who showed intense mother-child chemistry in "Parasite," raising expectations. "Number One" tells the story of Hamin (Choi Wooshik), who one day begins to see a number that decreases by one each time he eats his mother's food, and learns that when the number reaches zero his mother, Eunsil (Jang Hye-Jin), will die, so he struggles to protect her. Using the familiar subject of a mother's cooking, the film delicately unfolds the meaning of limited time and the love of family, delivering deep resonance and emotion. Not limited to a specific generation, it is a story that both parents and children can relate to in their respective places, and it is expected to firmly establish itself as a film the whole family can watch together during the Lunar New Year holiday.
Directed by Jang Hang-jun, the new film "The Man Who Lives With the King", which draws anticipation for the interesting meeting of Yoo Hai Jin, Park Jihoon, Yoo Ji-tae, and Jeon Mido, deals with the story of 1457 Cheongnyeongpo, where a village head who volunteered for exile for the village's revival and a young deposed king exiled from the throne meet, and is set to open on Feb. 4.
In addition, the film "Humint" is the third overseas-location installment by director Ryu Seung-wan following "Berlin" and "Mogadishu," and is the story of people with different objectives clashing in Vladivostok, where secrets and truths are submerged in the cold sea of ice. Zo In-sung, Park Jeongmin, Park Hae-jun, and Shin Sae-kyeong appear, and it opens on Feb. 11.<
[Photo] Posters for each film provided.
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