Private Eye
Theatrical poster
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
그림자 殺人
Revised RomanizationGeurimja sarin
McCune–ReischauerKǔrimja sarin
Directed byPark Dae-min
Written byPark Dae-min
Lee Yeong-jong
Yoon Seon-hui
Produced byLee Sang-yong
Han Seon-kyu
StarringHwang Jung-min
Ryu Deok-hwan
CinematographyChoi Chan-min
Edited byNam Na-yeong
Music byHwang Sang-jun
Production
company
Distributed byCJ Entertainment
Release date
  • April 2, 2009 (2009-04-02)
Running time
111 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguagesKorean
Japanese
Box officeUS$10.1 million[1]

Private Eye (Korean: 그림자 살인; RR: Geurimja sarin; lit. 'Shadow Murder') is a 2009 South Korean neo-noir mystery thriller film directed by Park Dae-min.[2]

Plot

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.

Cast

Box office

According to its distributor CJ Entertainment, Private Eye attracted more than 554,000 viewers nationwide in the four days since its premiere on April 2, 2009, making it #1 at the South Korean box office.[3] As of May 10, 2009, the total tickets sold domestically was 1,907,094.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Geulimja Salin (Shadow Kill) (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
  2. ↑ Shin, Hae-in (24 March 2009). "Epic film noir rich in period detail". Yonhap. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
  3. ↑ Ko, Kyoung-seok (6 April 2009). '그림자 살인', 50만명 돌파하며 박스오피스 1위 [Private Eye takes box office no.1, selling 500,000 tickets]. 10Asia (in Korean). Retrieved 2014-11-04.
  4. ↑ "Korean Box Office". Hancinema. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
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