When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatches a zany scheme to reroute the plane to Seoul.
Acting
Sul Kyung-gu's mysterious mastermind steals every scene he's in.
Direction
Byun Sung-hyun balances genuine peril with pure farce.
Writing
Dialogue where every lie could get everyone killed.
Director
Byun Sung-hyun
Sul Kyung-gu
Nobody
Hong Kyung
Seo Go-myung
Ryoo Seung-bum
Park Sang-hyeon
Takayuki Yamada
Shinichi Ishida
Kippei Shiina
Kubo
Kim Seung-o
Maeda
Show Kasamatsu
Denji
Nairu Yamamoto
Asuka
Jeon Do-yeon
First Lady
Park Hae-soo
Ryeo Dol-chan
Park Young-kyu
Kim Gab-seob
Shiro Sano
Sugimoto
Yoon Kyung-ho
Director
Eita Nagayama
Tadashi Yamamoto
Michael Anthony
Major Hall
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real 1970s Yodo-go hijacking, where Japanese Red Army militants actually DID divert a plane to North Korea — but this film imagines a wild 'what if' South Korean intervention that never happened.
Director Byun specifically cast Takayuki Yamada to ground the Japanese hijackers with genuine pathos, making their eventual manipulation hit harder — the film needs you to almost root for them before the rug pull.
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