Commitment (2013)

Original title

동창생

Directed by

Park Hong-soo

Genre

action film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

14A

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 138 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage North Korean boy is forced by the government to become an assassin to protect his younger sister. He goes to South Korea to carry out a killing while hiding his past.

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What happens

Commitment (Korean: 동창생; RR: Dongchangsaeng; lit. 'Alumnus; Graduate') is a 2013 South Korean action drama film starring Choi Seung-hyun, Han Ye-ri, Yoon Je-moon, Jo Sung-ha and Kim You-jung. He plays the teenage son of an ex-North Korean agent who is tasked to kill a North Korean assassin in South Korea in order to save his younger sister. The film is about third generation Koreans since the division of the peninsula and the Korean War, historical events that the teenage characters did not directly experience, but nevertheless, change their lives and destinies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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