January 8 2023

Shin Hyun-Joon Kills It As THE ASSASSIN In The First Teaser!

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Part of my hope nowadays as we get a look at this newest South Korean sword slasher, The Assassin, is that it’ll help spotlight another film featuring the same star at the time. Indeed it was Kim Young-jun’s Bichunmoo: Warrior Of Virtue that put actor Shin Hyun-joon on my radar a little over fifteen years ago, and with a film wholly indicative of the types of wuxia and kung fu productions the likes of fans of Wong Jing and Tsui Hark could take a liking to, and frankly it deserves a place somewhere on one of today’s current streaming mediums if not a renewed physical release at some point.

At any rate, we now leave it to the efforts of director Kwak Jeong-deok in what seems like his debut feature film after years of hacking away at the keyboard as screenwriter for titles like 2019 disaster thriller, Ashfall, and Kim Sung-hoon’s A Hard Day which is one of the best crime thrillers I’ve ever seen featuring Lee Sun-kyun. Looking at The Assassin now with Shin back on the table as a leading man in one of a few titles coming with the star, and a teaser that’s been up and running a few weeks to date, I’m already excited to see what this offers. It’s coming to Korean theaters in February from Wide Release Co., Ltd, and K-Movie Entertainment is repping international sales.

Everyone dies one day. Either today, or tomorrow.” I-nan (SHIN Hyun-joon) is Joseon’s greatest assassin, also called ‘Salsu’, who carries out missions to eliminate his targets. When he discovers he has a heart condition he has to put his violent career aside to go on a journey to find the herb that can cure his heart. Soon, the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted when he discovers there’s a bounty on his head. He is forced to hide in a small town, but when an area’s gang barges in, I-nan has no choice but to take his sword and accept his last deadly mission.