The film, entitled “Pieta,” will star actor Lee Jeong-jin and actress Jo Min-soo. According to NEW, Kim Ki-duk(3-Iron and Spring Summer Autumn Winter… and Spring) thought of the initial plot of the film as he wanted to delve into the theme of evil, and whether or not “human beings have evilness as one of their innate qualities.”
The upcoming film tells the story of a heartless man whose job is to threaten debtors to pay their money back to his clients. The plot develops as the man, who has no family, one day receives a visit from a strange, middle-aged woman ― who claims she is his long-lost biological mother.
Kim last year shared top prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes last year, for his wrenching cinematic self-portrait “Arirang.” The movie featured his perceived failings as a director after going through many traumatic events and “betrayals” by his colleagues in the film industry.
Source: The Korean Herald