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Handphone (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Handphone' is 2009 South Korean thriller film.
Plot
Talent manager Seung-min sees Yoon Jin-ah, a rising actress, as his one last hope to turn his life around. Just as Jin-ah is on the path to stardom, he receives a threat from her former lover and gets her sex clip on his phone. Seung-min tracks down the culprit and retrieves the tape but ends up losing his phone. He realizes there is one last evidence of the sex tape on his phone and anxiously looks for it. Yi-gyu, who found Seung-min's phone, calls Seung-min's wife and asks her to come pick it up. On the night the phone was supposed to be returned, Yi-gyu doesn't show up. Now Yi-gyu is the one holding the leverage. Seung-min tries to do everything possible to get back his phone but Yi-gyu's demands are escalating to the point of no return.
Cast
*Uhm Tae-woong as Oh Seung-min
*Park Yong-woo as Jung Yi-gyu
*Park Sol-mi as Kim Jeong-yeon
*Lee Se-na as Yoon Jin-ah
*Kim Nam-gil as Jang Yoon-ho (Jin-ah's ex-boyfriend)
*Hwang Bo-yeon as Kim Dae-jin (Seung-min's assistant)
* as Choi (loan shark)
* as Choi's bodyguard
*Kim Yu-seok as Han Joon-soo (attorney)
*Joo Jin-mo as Captain Kim
*Seo Woo as Yi-gyu's sister
* as wedding toastmaster
*Kim Gu-ra as radio DJ who interviews Jin-ah
*Jeon Bae-soo as sound engineer at radio station
*Bong Man-dae as movie director
* as man who lost dog in the store
* as mart female employee 2
*Jun In-kul as employee of management company
*Kwak Byung-kyu as lead detective
*Tae In-ho
Unofficial remakes
Two South Indian films have been made whose plots have close resemblance to 'Handphone', but they are not officially credited as remakes. The films are 'Chaappa Kurish' (lit. "Heads or Tails"; Malayalam; 2011), 'Pulivaal' ("Tail of Tiger"; Tamil; 2014) [http://kerala9.com/news/chappa-kurishu-malayalam-movie-review/ "Chappa Kurishu Malayalam Movie Review"]. 'Kerala9.com'. 18 July 2011. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
References
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