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Trailer for Upcoming Korean Film “The Jurors” by Hong Seung-wan

In spite of being generally lauded as one of South Korea's best actresses, has mostly featured in special appearances or as part of an ensemble in films in recent years. In fact, the only time she's been in leading roles in the past 4 years has been in director Zhang Lu's films (“Love and…”, “Ode to the Goose“) and her own directorial debut “The Running Actress”. She kicks off her 2019 with yet another important leading role as part of an ensemble in director 's debut film “”.

Synopsis

Kim Joon-kyeom is a presiding judge who leads the first civil participation of a criminal trial in South Korea. 8 jurors are selected for the criminal trial including Kwon Nam-woo. The jurors are ordinary people, but, after they become jurors, they seek out the truth of the case.

Working off his own script, Hong Seung-wan attempts to tell the true story of South Korea's first public trial. In addition to Moon So-ri as Kim Joon-kyeom, the other lead role of Kwon Nam-woo goes to . While this is only his second feature film after “Two Lights: Relumino”, he is a k-drama regular. Hong has also managed to gather some excellent supporting actors, with Baek Soo-jang (“Rampant“), Kim Mi-kyeong (“Dark Figure of Crime“), Yoon Kyung-ho (“Svaha: The Sixth Finger”), (“The Villagers”), Jo Han-chul (“Default”), Kim Hong-pa (“The Drug King“) and Jo Soo-hyang (“Microhabitat“) making up the rest of the jurors.

The film releases in South Korea on May 16th, 2019.

About the author

Rhythm Zaveri

Hello, my name is Rhythm Zaveri. For as long as I can remember, I've been watching movies, but my introduction to Asian cinema was old rental VHS copies of Bruce Lee films and some Shaw Bros. martial arts extravaganzas. But my interest in the cinema of the region really deepened when I was at university and got access to a massive range of VHS and DVDs of classic Japanese and Chinese titles in the library, and there has been no turning back since.

An avid collector of physical media, I would say Korean cinema really is my first choice, but I'll watch anything that is south-east Asian. I started contributing to Asian Movie Pulse in 2018 to share my love for Asian cinema in the form of my writings.

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