BLUEBEARD
Director: Lee Soo-youn
Distributor: Lotte Entertainment
Cast: Cho Jin-woong, Kim Dae-myung, Shin Gu
Synopsis:
Dr. Seung-hoon (played by Cho Jin-woon) sedates his landlord before medical check-up, when the old man begins telling him a convincing murder confession. Sometime later, a young woman’s severed head is discovered at a butcher shop run by his landlord’s son, and Seung-hoon begins to suspect that the landlord and his son are the serial killers.
After appearing in a supporting role in the critically acclaimed Nameless Gangster, Cho Jin-woong rose to prominence as the antagonist in 2014’s A Hard Day and his career gained remarkable momentum. He landed a starring role alongside Choi Min-sik in The Admiral: Roaring Currents and the following year, he appeared in the star-studded period action drama Assassination. Recently, he delivered an outstanding performance in Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden and will be seen in, of Nameless Gangster, director Yoon Jong-bin’s new film Duke co-starring with Hwang Jung-min.
The film is slated to open nationwide in March.
Additional source: Lotte Entertainment