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KT
Directed by	Junji Sakamoto
Written by	Haruhiko Arai Eisuke Nakazono
Produced by	Lee Bong-su Yukiko Shii
Starring	Kōichi Satō Kim Kap-soo Choi Il-hwa
Cinematography	Norimichi Kasamatsu
Edited by	Kim Hyeong-ju
Music by	Park Ji-woong
Distributed by	Cinequanon
Release date	May 3, 2002 (2002-05-03)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	South Korea
Languages	Korean Japanese

KT is a 2002 Japanese-South Korean film directed by Junji Sakamoto with a screenplay by Haruhiko Arai. It is based on the kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung by agents of Park Chung-hee in August 1973 while on a trip to Tokyo. He was released in Seoul after five days.

The title KT means Killing the Target.^[1]

Plot

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The story is centered on Masuo Tomita, a Japanese intelligence officer who helped arrange for South Korean agents to kidnap and try to kill Park Chung-hee's enemy Kim Dae-jung, who was in exile in Tokyo. Tomita went along with the plan to save a South Korean teacher Lee Jeong-mi, whom he loved.

Cast

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Kōichi Satō ... Masuo Tomita
Kim Kap-soo ... Kim Chang-won
Choi Il-hwa ... Kim Dae-jung
Yoshio Harada ... Akikazu Kamikawa
Michitaka Tsutsui ... Kim Kap-soo
Yang Eun-yong ... Lee Jeong-mi
Kim Byung-se ... Kim Jung-won
Teruyuki Kagawa ...Haruo Satake
Akira Emoto ... Hiroshi Uchiyama
Kyoko Enami ... Kab-Soos Mother
Noboru Hamada ... Minister
Masahiro Komoto
Akaji Maro ... Susumu Kawahara
Ken Mitsuishi ...Yu Chun-seong
Ryūshi Mizukami
Nana Nakamoto ... Toshiko Takashima
Hirochi Oguchi ... Shoichi Tsukada
Gō Rijū ... Hong Seong-jin
Kenji Sahara... Minister
Ken Utsui
Hōka Kinoshita
Akira Hamada

References

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^ "輝国山人の韓国映画阪本順治ＫＴ" (in Japanese). Hf.rim.or.jp. Retrieved 2022-12-22.

External links

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KT at IMDb
KT at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)

v t e Films directed by Junji Sakamoto
Dotsuitarunen (1989) Tekken (1990) Ōte (1991) Tokarefu (1994) Face (2000) New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (2000) KT (2002) My House (2003) Chameleon (2008) Children of the Dark (2008) Zatoichi: The Last (2010) Strangers in the City (2010) Someday (2011) Human Trust (2013)

v t e Mainichi Film Award for Excellence Film
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