Today I recommend a long-standing Korean crime action film "Life and Death Spy Change", which was released in 1999 and directed by Kang Tik-gyu, the director of "Tai Chi Flag Flying", and starring Han Seok-gyu, Song Kang-ho, Choi Min-sik, and Kim Yoon-jin. The film mainly tells the story of The South Korean criminal police played by Han Seok-gyu and Song Kang-ho who arrests The elite female agent of North Korea, Kim Myung-hee.
Kim Myung-hee is an elite female agent trained by North Korea's Eighth Special Forces, who has assassinated a number of politicians since infiltrating South Korea in 1993, and her actions have attracted the attention of the South Korean criminal police, and two outstanding agents, Choe Sang-hwan (Han Seok-gyu) and Lee Jong-hee (Song Kang-ho), are sent to track them down, but Kim Myung-hee seems to have disappeared from the world.
In 1998, Kim Myung-hee reappeared, killing black-market arms dealer Lin Guangchao and Ministry of National Defense researcher Kim Jong-ho, and Choi Sang-hwan found out that Kim Myung-hee's target was a newly developed weapon
CTX liquid bombs, while North Korea's Eighth Special Forces sent a special squad led by Bu Wan-kun (Choi Min-sik) to attempt to rob ctx to sabotage the upcoming Inter-Korean football friendly match to be held in South Korea.
Each time Kim Myung-hee kills the target before Choi Lee and Lee act, making the two feel that there is a spy inside the police station, and Lee Jeong-hee also thinks that Kim Myung-hee always shows mercy to Choi Sang-hwan's men who are present, and at the same time finds that the fish in the police station's fish tank have been installed with bugging devices, all of which point to Choi Sang-hwan's fiancée, Lim Mi-woo (Kim Yoon-jin). In order to destroy the enemy's plot, the two must race against the clock, and Xiang Huan must also make a choice in his heart.
The picture of this film now seems a little rough, the suspense is relatively easy to guess, the action scenes also have deep imitation traces, but the significance of this film is far from this, the nineties is the period when Korean films are going to internationalization, the government also strongly supports the film industry, encouraging the injection of the capital market, "Life and Death Spy Change" is the korean film to mature the work, and since then the economic prosperity has accelerated the rapid development of the film industry, a variety of high-quality films emerge in an endless stream.
In this milestone work, the director skillfully combines national righteousness and personal feelings, and gathers actors such as Song Kanghao, Choi Min-sik, Kim Yoon-jin and other actors who will be on fire in the future, and even the future Qinglong Film Emperor Huang Zhengmin is also playing soy sauce in this film. Friends who like spy movies must not miss it, although it is old, but it will not affect the viewing.