Private Eye (film)

Private Eye
Private Eye
	Theatrical poster
Korean name
Hangul	그림자 살인
Hanja	그림자 殺人
Revised Romanization	Geurimja sarin
McCune–Reischauer	Kǔrimja sarin
Directed by	Park Dae-min
Written by	Park Dae-min; Lee Yeong-jong; Yoon Seon-hui
Produced by	Lee Sang-yong; Han Seon-kyu
Starring	Hwang Jung-min; Ryu Deok-hwan
Cinematography	Choi Chan-min
Edited by	Nam Na-yeong
Music by	Hwang Sang-jun
Production; company	CJ Entertainment
Distributed by	CJ Entertainment
Release date	April 2, 2009;
Running time	111 minutes
Country	South Korea
Languages	Korean; Japanese
Box office	US$10.1 million

Private Eye (Korean: 그림자 살인; RR: Geurimja sarin; lit. 'Shadow Murder') is a 2009 South Korean neo-noir mystery thriller film directed by Park Dae-min.^[2]

Plot[edit]

Seoul, 1910. Hong Jin-ho, Joseon’s first detective, travels around solving trivial family disputes for pocket money as a private detective. However, he is determined to go to America someday and is saving up for the trip. Then one night, Gwang-soo, a medical physician in training, discovers a corpse in the woods and secretly takes it to practice dissecting. But the corpse turns out to be the son of Seoul’s most powerful man. While planning to flee in the middle of the night and afraid of murder accusations, Gwang-soo meets Jin-ho, and asks him to find the killer. When another corpse turns up in the woods, murdered in the same way as the first victim, Jin-ho and Gwang-soo use a piece of cloth they find in the victim’s mouth as the lead they need to bring them one step closer to the real killer.

Cast[edit]

Hwang Jung-min as Hong Jin-ho (private detective)
Ryu Deok-hwan as Jang Gwang-soo (medical student)
Uhm Ji-won as Soon-deok (inventor)
Oh Dal-su as Oh Young-dal (police officer)
Yoon Je-moon as Eok-kwan (circus master)
Go Jun as Herb doctor
Yoo Seung-mok

Box office[edit]

According to its distributor CJ Entertainment, Private Eye attracted more than 554,000 viewers nationwide in the four days since its premiere on April 2, 2009, making it #1 at the South Korean box office.^[3] As of May 10, 2009, the total tickets sold domestically was 1,907,094.^[4]

References[edit]

^ "Geulimja Salin (Shadow Kill) (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
^ Shin, Hae-in (24 March 2009). "Epic film noir rich in period detail". Yonhap. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
^ Ko, Kyoung-seok (6 April 2009). '그림자 살인', 50만명 돌파하며 박스오피스 1위 [Private Eye takes box office no.1, selling 500,000 tickets]. 10Asia (in Korean). Retrieved 2014-11-04.
^ "Korean Box Office". Hancinema. Retrieved 2014-11-04.

External links[edit]

Official website (in Korean)
Private Eye at Naver (in Korean)
Private Eye at the Korean Movie Database
Private Eye at IMDb
Private Eye at HanCinema

[1] "Geulimja Salin (Shadow Kill) (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-06-04.

[2] Shin, Hae-in (24 March 2009). "Epic film noir rich in period detail". Yonhap. Retrieved 2014-11-04.

[3] Ko, Kyoung-seok (6 April 2009). '그림자 살인', 50만명 돌파하며 박스오피스 1위 [Private Eye takes box office no.1, selling 500,000 tickets]. 10Asia (in Korean). Retrieved 2014-11-04.

[4] "Korean Box Office". Hancinema. Retrieved 2014-11-04.

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