Luck Key
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Directed by | Lee Gae-byok |
Written by | Jang Yoon-mi |
Produced by | Jung Hee-soon |
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Production company | Yong Film |
Distributed by | Showbox |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Box office | US$47.4 million[1] |
Luck Key (Korean: 럭키; RR: Leokki) is a 2016 South Korean film directed by Lee Gae-byok. It is a remake of the 2012 Japanese comedy film Key of Life.[2][3][4][5][6]
Plot
Jae-sung (Lee Joon), an aspiring actor who hit rock bottom, wants to commit a suicide but decides to clean himself first at a public sauna. Hyung-wook (Yoo Hae-jin), a notorious assassin, just killed a man and tries to clean himself at the same sauna. Jae-sung notices Hyung-wook’s luxurious look. Hyung-wook slips on a soap and passes out at the sauna. Jae-sung switches his locker key with Hyung-wook's and steals Hyung-wook's car key and money. Jae-sung later tries to return everything to Hyung-wook who was in the emergency room but finds that Hyung-wook does not remember anything due to a concussion. While Jae-sung enjoys Hyung-wook’s money and his fancy apartment, Hyung-wook struggles to find his identify. After Hyung-wook learned that he is bankrupt, the paramedic Lina (Jo Yoon-hee) who paid emergency room bill for Hyung-wook asks him to work at her mom's cafeteria so that he can pay her back. With his extreme knife skill, Hyung-wook becomes the main chef at the cafeteria. He later finds a marked date on a calendar with a location information and finds that he (Jae-sung in reality) is an actor who was supposed to appear in a gangster-themed TV show as an extra. Hyung-wook excels in action scenes thanks to his real life skills and experience he does not know. His role in the show becomes more significant as the show progresses. Hyung-wook and Lina also find themselves liking each other. Meantime in Hyung-wook's apartment, Jae-sung discovers a secret room and thinks that Hyung-wook is an undercover cop protecting a witness named Eun-joo (Lim ji-yeon), who lives in the same building. Jae-sung follows her and tries to make up to her. They eventually fall in love with each other. One day, Jae-sung answers a phone call to Hyung-wook and meets with the people who asks him why Eun-joo is still alive and when to kill her. Jae-sung realizes that Hyung-wook is actually an assassin hired to kill Eun-joo. After a picnic with Lina's family, Hyung-wook recovers his memory and finds Jae-sung and Eun-joo. Hyung-wook reveals to Jae-sung that he is not a real assassin and that he has been trying to give a new life to assassination victims by faking their death and sharing the money he makes. Hyung-wook, Jae-sung, and Eun-joo devise a new plan for themselves so that they can start a new clean life. Hyung-wook also tells Lina that they cannot be together and leaves. Heartbroken, Lina follows him to a place where Hyung-wook, Jae-sung, and Eun-joo are trying to fake their own death in front of the people who hired Hyung-wook. Lina's unexpected interference almost ruins the plan but they manage to succeed. People believe that they are all dead and leave. Later, Hyung-wook tells Lina who he really is and apologizes. Lina, not sure what to do, takes him to the set of the TV show to finish the final scene. On the set, Hyung-wook goes again a script and confesses his feeling to Lina who accepts it. At the final scene, Jae-sung and Hyung-wook are starting a fight in a new TV show.
Cast
- Yoo Hae-jin as Hyung-wook[7]
- Lee Joon as Jae-sung
- Jo Yoon-hee as Lina
- Lim Ji-yeon as Eun-ju
- Jeon Hye-bin as Hye-bin
- Lee Dong-hwi as Min-suk
Reception
The film grossed US$47.4 million.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Leokki (2016)". The Numbers. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
- ^ Jin, Min-ji (2016-10-07). "An unexpected life swap tale brings the laughs". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
- ^ http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=3610
- ^ http://variety.com/2016/film/asia/korea-box-office-luck-key-stays-on-top-1201898446/
- ^ http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/culturesports/2016/10/24/0701000000AEN20161024002300315.html
- ^ http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3025289&cloc=etc%7Cjad%7Cgooglenews
- ^ http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/infographic.jsp?blbdComCd=601028&seq=84&mode=VIEW
External links
- Luck Key at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
- Luck Key at HanCinema