Jo Jin-woong turns greedy goldminer in The Hunt

by tineybeanie

The Hunt is coming out next week on June 29. Starring Jo Jin-woong (Signal) and Ahn Sung-ki (The Divine Move), this action thriller flick is about a group of disreputable treasure hunters who end up climbing a mountain they should have left alone and an old village man who ends up witnessing too much for his own good. This film has drawn much attention for its unique way of attracting investors to raise capital for production; Big Stone Pictures decided to use crowdsourcing to fund this project, and within a day was able to raise over three hundred million won.

So we’ve established that lots of people have high hopes for this movie. What will it be about? Ahn Sung-ki plays an old man, Ki-sung, who is the only survivor of a coal mining accident that occurred years ago. Due to his injuries and trauma from the incident, he lives a quiet solitary life, occasionally hunting food from the mountain. However in his nightmares of that day, he remembers the dying wish from one of his mining buddies to protect and look over his young daughter Yang-sun, played by Han Ye-ri (Six Flying Dragons). Jo Jin-woong is playing two roles in the movie, Park Dong-geun and Park Myung-geun, who are twin brothers. Dong-geun is the head honcho of the shady crew that goes to mine gold from the ominous mountain, and Myung-geun is a police officer who gives him information from the outside.

From the teaser we see that a group of men are ecstatic to find gold at the mountain and are determined to claim it. Due to frequent landslides, this mountain is a restricted area so they’re confident that no one will steal their discovery. When a bedraggled-looking elderly woman comes up to them and asks whether those rocks are gold nuggets, panic sets in, and the scene cuts to Jo Jin-woong firing a gun. Then Han Ye-ri shows up on the mountain, shouting everywhere for her grandmother. Ki-sung also happens to see the men on the mountain and tries to get Han Ye-ri to escape with him. When the men notice him, the hunter becomes the hunted. Jo Jin-woong’s eyes are absolutely chilling as he ends the trailer with “Shall the real hunt begin?”

I can understand the people who crowdsourced this movie because it has an A-level talented cast of proven Chungmuro actors. Famous for his collected acting style, Sohn Hyun-joo (Signal) appears as a police investigator who has been suspicious of Ki-sung for the coal mine incident from ten years ago. In addition, Kwon Yul (Bring it On, Ghost), whose popularity has been steadily increasing since his short role in Roaring Currents, has been cast as a cheeky and ruthless sidekick to Jo Jin-woong. Not to mention the main characters Jo Jin-woong, Ahn Sung-ki, and Han Ye-ri. With this amount of talent concentrated in one movie, The Hunt could become a sleeper hit.

Keep your eye out for The Hunt in theaters June 29.

Via DongA Sports, News1, Osen

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