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The Five (film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Five' is a 2013 South Korean thriller horror film written and directed by Jeong Yeon-shik based on his own webtoon 'The 5ive Hearts', which first appeared on internet portal Daum in April 2011.
Kim Sun-a starred as a disabled woman who gathers four desperate people in need of organs to take revenge on the serial killer who murdered her family.
Plot
Eun-ah was living a perfect, happy life with her family until a sociopathic young man named Jae-wook brutally and senselessly murders her husband and daughter in front of her eyes. Barely escaping alive herself, Eun-ah is left half-paralyzed and reliant on a wheelchair. After her recovery, she grows fixated on taking revenge on him. Two years later, following a long search, she hones in within striking distance of the killer. Faced with such a dangerous adversary and her immobility, Eun-ah gathers four people marginalized by society, each with a different skill, to help her kill Jae-wook. In exchange, she is prepared to give them something they desperately needher organs. All four accompliceswhich include a North Korean defector, an ex-gangster, a doctor, and an engineerare in need of organ transplants for various reasons, and Eun-ah promises them her organs once her revenge is complete. But things don't go as planned, and the killer turns the tables and starts hunting them himself.
Cast
*Kim Sun-a as Go Eun-ah
*On Joo-wan as Oh Jae-wook
*Ma Dong-seok as Jang Dae-ho, ex-gangster
*Shin Jung-geun as Nam-cheol, engineer
*Jung In-gi as Cheol-min, doctor
*Lee Chung-ah as Park Jeong-ha, computer technician
*Park Hyo-joo as Hye-jin, Christian social worker
*Lee Yong-yi as Jeong-ha's mother
*Jo Han-cheol as Kim Seong-il, Eun-ah's husband
*Kim Hyun-soo as Kim Ga-young, Eun-ah's daughter
*Choi Hak-rak as Jeong-do
*Jung Soo-young as Dae-ho's wife
*Yeo Min-joo as Hyeon-joo, hospital patient
*Lee Jun-hyeok as Detective Park
*Park Ji-hong as Park Kyeong-soo, parking attendant
*Han Yeon-kyeong as Chae-young, Ga-young's school friend
*Lee Seung-hoon as Min-soo
*Go Bong-gu as Sang-gu
*Oh Man-seok as Loan shark boss
*Kim Gyeong-ran as Minimart owner
*Kim Min-kyu
References
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