UNSEEN: Take A Shot At The Official Trailer For Jung Hee-Jun’s Award-Winning Spy Drama Debut
Three years since its completion and the start of its subsequent festival circulation, writer/director Jung Hee-jun’s debut spy drama, Unseen, will finally get its Korean release on December 19. The film swept award shows in Russia, Spain and France, previously screening in color before receiving its more grittier presentation awash with less color.
Even more peculiar is the logline below in its detail. There’s nothing new here about compelling Korean stories featuring characters from the North and South in a clash of interests, but opposing characters squaring off with the enemies’ own weapons? That’s a nice little poetic addendum to add to the espionage and intrigue some.
In 1996, 26 spies from the North infiltrate into South Korea. 25 of them are rooted out, but one last spy escapes. An HID secret agent, called ‘Ghost’ is put to catch the last one alive.
The spy and the Ghost, finally encounter and engage in suffocating gunfights, ironically, with the Ghost using an AK-47 rifle manufactured in a communist country, and the North Korean spy using an M16 made by capitalists.
The shouting of the Ghost emptily echoes in the forest, after missing the spy as he disappears ‘like a ghost’. And the spy, in his hideout, tries killing himself using the last bullet…
20 years later, the Ghost, having become homeless, wanders about like a real ‘ghost’ in the downtown area in Seoul, still chasing the illusion of the spy from the North…
Unseen stars Yoon Jung-yeol, and Hong Sang-jin who also produced the film with Jung. Check out the trailer below!
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