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Blood and Ties (2013)

Blood and Ties poster
Original title
공범
Directed by
Guk Dong-seok
Genre
crime thriller film
Country
South Korea
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
15
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 47 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young journalist starts to suspect that her loving father was involved in a kidnap-murder case from 15 years ago. As she digs into the old crime, her relationship with her father becomes fraught with doubt and fear.

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What happens

Blood and Ties (Korean: 공범; RR: Gongbeom; lit. 'Accomplices') is a 2013 South Korean crime-thriller film written and directed by Guk Dong-seok, and starring Son Ye-jin and Kim Kap-soo. It follows a budding journalist who suspects that her doting father may have been the culprit in a kidnap-murder case 15 years earlier. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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