| Hindsight | |||||||||
| Image Upright: | 1.15 | ||||||||
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| Director: | Lee Hyun-seung | ||||||||
| Producer: | Lee Hyun-seung Ahn Soo-hyun Kim Sung-min | ||||||||
| Starring: | Song Kang-ho Shin Se-kyung | ||||||||
| Music: | 3rd Coast | ||||||||
| Cinematography: | Kim Byeong-seo | ||||||||
| Editing: | Kim Sang-bum Kim Jae-bum Yu Seung-yeop | ||||||||
| Studio: | Studio Blue | ||||||||
| Distributor: | CJ Entertainment | ||||||||
| Runtime: | 121 minutes | ||||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||||
| Gross: | [1] | ||||||||
Hindsight (lit. Blue Salt) is a 2011 South Korean action drama film by Lee Hyun-seung, his first after a ten-year hiatus.[2] The film is about a hitwoman who struggles with her feelings for the underworld boss who is her target. The film deals with issues of age difference, and the Korean underworld. It stars Song Kang-ho and Shin Se-kyung, and premiered at the 16th Busan International Film Festival.[3] The film received a total of 763,776 admissions nationwide.[4]
Busan, South Korea, the present day. Legendary retired gangster Yoon Doo-hun (Song Kang-ho) dreams of opening a restaurant, and enrolls in a cooking class, where he gets to know Jo Se-bin (Shin Se-kyung). Doo-hun then hears that his former boss, Man-gil, has died after being hit by a car; the gang's members need to find Man-gil's will to see whom he nominated as his successor, though most of them expect it is Doo-hun. Meanwhile, Se-bin's roommate Lee Eun-jung (Esom) has become indebted to some Haeundae moneylenders, who force Se-bin, in return, to spy on Doo-hun. After Eun-jung steals a suitcase containing cocaine from the moneylenders, Se-bin is ordered to kill Doo-hun but can't bring herself to do it. Instead, Eun-jung tries to run him over with a car and subsequently disappears. Doo-hun survives and takes over as head of his old gang, intent on discovering who killed Man-gil. Among various problems, he has to contend with Baek Kyung-min (Lee Jong-hyuk), an ambitious young member of the gang, and his continuing relationship with Se-bin, who is under pressure from assassination agency head Madame Kang (Youn Yuh-jung) to kill him.[5] [6] [7]