Award-Winning Director Yoon Jae-Keun’s SPIRITWALKER Shoots Out With Mystery And Danger This November
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Having only directed two films in the span of a decade, 2021 has earned filmmaker Yoon Jae-Keun twice the charm with the ceremony of his latest slick bodyswapping assassin thriller, Spiritwalker.
The film held audiences captive this summer in-person at NYAFF where he, and producers Billy Acumen, Lee So-young and Kim Hyun-suk scored the The Daniel A. Craft Award for Excellence in Action Cinema, and most recently at the London East Asian Film Festival to help whet the director’s appetite for much-needed circulation as local exhibitors tussled with mid-pandemic release plans.
The film, which stars Yoon Kye-sang (Malmoe: The Secret Mission, The Outlaws), Park Yong-Woo (Nailed, Hwayi: A Monster Boy), Lim Ji-yeon (Tazza: One Eyed Jack, Luck-Key) and Park Ji-Hwan (Beasts Clawing At Straws, Unstoppable), is finally making headway nowadays with key art and trailer footage all signaling a November 24 release in theaters from Megabox Plus M. As for the story, well, it goes a little something like this:
A man loses his memory and wakes up in a new body every 12 hours, each time forced to discover who he is anew. This condition begins when he wakes up in the middle of a car crash, in the body of someone he doesn’t recognize, without any knowledge of who he is. He begins to realize that his spirit is stuck to a different body and moves every 12 hours. In his desperate search to find himself, he comes across a woman who claims to recognize him. As he bores deeper into the mystery, he runs into a secretive organization that appears to be chasing him. Before it’s too late, he must find a way back into his own body.
Feel free to take in some more insight with this year’s NYAFF host Samuel Jamier in his interview with Yoon back in August. Also, peep the trailers and key art below and keep your senses open for more info as we body-hop this thriller closer to a stateside release!
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