After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other.
Acting
Lee Jung-jae and Jung Woo-sung's decades-long chemistry curdles magnificently
Direction
Lee Jung-jae's debut: confident, vicious, unsurprisingly actor-centric
Production
Recreated 1983 Seoul so authentic you'll smell the cigarette smoke
Director
Lee Jung-jae
Lee Jung-jae
Park Pyong-ho
Jung Woo-sung
Kim Jung-do
Jeon Hye-jin
Bang Ju-kyung
Heo Sung-tae
Jang Chul-sung
Go Youn-jung
Cho Yoo-jung
Kim Jong-soo
Director Ahn
Jeong Man-sik
Yang Bo-sung
Lim Hyung-kook
Transposer
Jung Kyung-soon
Chun Bo-san
Jeong Jae-seong
Pyo Dong-ho
Song Young-chang
Director Kang
Hwang Jung-min
Lieutenant Ri
Lee Sung-min
Cho Won-sik
You Chea-myung
CEO Choi
Kang Kyung-hun
Jung-do's Wife
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's 1987 setting deliberately mirrors South Korea's democratic transition, with Chun Doo-hwan's authoritarian regime as the true villain hovering off-screen.
Lee Jung-jae and Jung Woo-sung have been best friends since 1997's 'Beat'—their real bond makes the on-screen betrayal almost unbearably intimate.
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