Handphone | |
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Directed by | Kim Han-min |
Produced by | Heo Tae-gu Kim Min-gi Heo Chang Eom Ju-yeong |
Written by | Kim Mi-hyeon |
Starring |
Uhm Tae-woong Park Yong-woo |
Music by | Kim Jun-seong |
Cinematography | Park Sang-hun |
Edited by | Kim Sun-min |
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Running time
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137 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Handphone (Hangul: 핸드폰; RR: Haendeupon; MR: Haendŭp‘on) is 2009 South Korean crime film.
Talent manager Seung-min sees Yoon Jin-ah, a rising actress, as his one last hope to turn his life around. Just as Jin-ah is on the path to stardom, he receives a threat from her former lover and gets her sex clip on his phone. Seung-min tracks down the culprit and retrieves the tape but ends up losing his phone. He realizes there is one last evidence of the sex tape on his phone and anxiously looks for it. Yi-gyu, who found Seung-min's phone, calls Seung-min's wife and asks her to come pick it up. On the night the phone was supposed to be returned, Yi-gyu doesn't show up. Now Yi-gyu is the one holding the leverage. Seung-min tries to do everything possible to get back his phone but Yi-gyu's demands are escalating to the point of no return.
Three South Indian films have been made whose plots have close resemblance to Handphone, but they are not officially credited as remakes. The films are Chaappa Kurish (lit. "Heads or Tails"; Malayalam; 2011), Puli Vaal ("Tail of Tiger"; Tamil; 2014)