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Private Eye is a sud coréen film of genre Thriller released in USA on 2 april 2009 with Hwang Jeong-min

Private Eye (2009)

Private Eye
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Private Eye (Hangul: 그림자 살인; RR: Geurimja sarin; lit. "Shadow Murder") is a 2009 South Korean period film noir directed by Park Dae-min.

Synopsis

Seoul, 1910. Hong Jin-ho, Joseon’s first detective, travels around solving trivial family disputes for pocket money as a private detective. However, he is determined to go to America someday and is saving up for the trip. Then one night, Gwang-soo, a medical physician in training, discovers a corpse in the woods and secretly takes it to practice dissecting. But the corpse turns out to be the son of Seoul’s most powerful man. While planning to flee in the middle of the night and afraid of murder accusations, Gwang-soo meets Jin-ho, and asks him to find the killer. When another corpse turns up in the woods, murdered in the same way as the first victim, Jin-ho and Gwang-soo use a piece of cloth they find in the victim’s mouth as the lead they need to bring them one step closer to the real killer.

Actors

Hwang Jeong-min

(Hong Jin-ho)
Ryu Deok-hwan

(Jang Gwang-soo)
Uhm Ji-won

(Soon-deok (inventor))
Oh Dal-soo

(Oh Yeong-dal)
Yoon Je-moon

(Uk-kwan)
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