A Self-Righteous Man
- Action
- War
Overview
As the tragic war of fratricide is drawing to a close, a special agent nicknamed Dokbul, Kang Cheol-gu, is given an intelligence mission to identify and confirm the enemy's unusual movements. While on a mission, Cheol-gu infiltrates the enemy's camp alone and accidentally witnesses a bloody scene of massacre of civilians. He saves the only survivor, Hwang No-in, and is hinted that the enemy's plot is very dangerous. Cheol-gu approaches Mi-young, a People's Army nurse, to extract information, but is exposed to the enemy and escapes a crisis after a fierce battle. In the end, thanks to Cheol-gu's persistence, Mi-young realizes the illusion of the liberation struggle they are calling for, and transforms into Cheol-gu's collaborator to stop their horrific plot, germ warfare, and carries out the mission. However, the result of this tragic war is only futility. A war of illusions where more is lost than gained, and in the end, even the nickname Dokbul sheds hot tears.
Keywords
- secret agent
- agent
- north korea
- germ warfare
- korean war (1950-53)
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 9, 1988
- Original language
- Korean
- Spoken languages
- Chinese, Korean
- Countries
- South Korea
- Production
- Samjin Films
- Cast
- Jang Jeong-kuk,Se-hyeok Jeong,Kil Da-Ro,Hwang Hae,Lee Dong-jun,Park Dong-ryong,Kwon Jae-hee,Jeon Young-rok,Ju Sang-ho,Jin Bong-jin
- Director
- Ki-pung Choi
- Writer
- Kim Jin-hyeok
- Producer
- Jeong Kwang-Woong
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0427167