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The Culprit

KO Jeong-uk

Korea2018100min Color World Premiere

Synopsis

Someone brutally murders Young-hoon’s wife. A hair sample was found on his wife’s body and the detectives use it to trace it back to his friend Joon-sung and locks him up. Seemingly becoming a murder’s wife overnight, Da-yeon asks Young-hoon to testify on his behalf but when he doesn’t show up for the trial, she goes to visit him at his house.

Program Note

The Culprit follows the desperate struggle of a man looking for his wife’s real murderer and a woman trying to prove her husband’s innocence. How risky is the co-operation of strangers who conceal their real agenda and the whole truth? Through a repeatedly twisted storyline, this film explores the weak and selsh nature of those who are swayed on the border between good and evil. (MO Eun-young)

Diretor

KO Jeong-uk

Born in 1975, he studied Film at Seoul Institute of the Arts. He has worked in many feature film projects taking the roles of Scripter to Assistant Director, but Poison Frog is his first directorial film.

Credit

Producer
DO Sanghyun
Screenplay
KOH Jungwook
Cinematographer
KIM Dongchon
Editor
MOON Indae
Music
JEONG Yongjin
Production Design
LEE Minhee