Hyun-soo is a skillful individual stock investor, so-called ‘ant’. One day, he cashes in up seventy thousand dollars through stock trading and this jackpot gets him implicated in a $60 million stock manipulation by scam artists from various fields. With a huge pot of money before their eyes, the scam seems to be perfectly unfolding. But another scam is emerging underneath team as the scammers chase each other and are being chased at the end.
Writing
Russian doll scams — every reveal births another betrayal
Acting
Park Yong-ha's desperate everyman against Park Hee-soon's greasy menace
Direction
Lee Ho-jae keeps you dizzy enough to miss the cons coming
Director
Lee Ho-jae
Park Yong-ha
Kang Hyun-soo
Kim Min-joung
Yu Seo-yeon
Park Hee-soon
Hwang Jong-ku
Kim Moo-yul
Jo Min-hyung
Jun Kim
Brian Choi
Lee Dong-yong
Hwang's security #1
Jo Jae-yun
Mr. Lee
Park Jae-woong
Duk Sang-Lee
Jo Deok-hyeon
Park Chang-joo
Kim Yeong-hun
Secretary Nam
Kwon Jae-hwan
Kim Seong-Beom
Kim Seung-hoon
Lee Jae-Hak
Yoo Seung-mok
Prof. Yun Sang-Tae
Jeon Kuk-hwan
Super Ant / Masan Venture Capital
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Park Yong-ha's final film before his death — his performance carries an accidental valedictory weight he couldn't have intended.
Released months after the 2008 crash, it weaponized real Korean 'ant investor' rage against the chaebol system that ate them alive.
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