Gurus in the late Goryeo dynasty try to obtain a fabled, holy sword, and humans in 2022 hunt down an alien prisoner that is locked in a human's body. The two parties cross paths when a time-traveling portal opens up.
Direction
Choi Dong-hoon commits to every wild swing without blinking.
Visual Effects
Alien tech colliding with Goryeo aesthetics is genuinely gorgeous.
Acting
Kim Tae-ri anchors the chaos with actual emotional weight.
Director
Choi Dong-hoon
Ryu Jun-yeol
Muruk
Kim Woo-bin
Guard / Thunder
Kim Tae-ri
Ean
So Ji-sub
Moon Do-seok
Yum Jung-ah
Madam Black
Jo Woo-jin
Mr. Blue
Kim Eui-sung
Jajang / Doctor
Lee Hanee
Min Gaelin
Shin Jung-keun
Right Paw
Lee Si-hoon
Left Paw
Kim Dae-myung
Thunder (voice)
Choi Yu-ri
Young Ean
Kim Ki-cheon
Gae-ttong
Yoon Byung-hee
Shaman Dosa / Alien Robot (voice)
Ji Gun-woo
Murderer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is the first half of a planned two-part epic—Choi Dong-hoon shot both films back-to-back, explaining the 142-minute runtime and unresolved threads.
The Taoist wizard aesthetics draw heavily from Korean shamanism and Chinese wuxia, filtered through Choi's signature heist-movie kineticism—imagine The Thieves but everyone's casting spells at aliens.
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