Helpless (2012 film)
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| Hangul | |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Hwacha |
| McCune–Reischauer | Hwach‘a |
| Directed by | Byun Young-joo |
| Produced by | Shin Hye-eun Oh Ki-min |
| Written by | Byun Young-joo |
| Based on |
All She Was Worth by Miyabe Miyuki |
| Starring |
Kim Min-hee Lee Sun-kyun Jo Sung-ha |
| Music by | Kim Hong-jib |
| Cinematography | Kim Dong-young |
| Edited by | Park Gok-ji |
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| Distributed by | CJ E&M |
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117 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | ₩18,459,203,000 US$16,175,929 |
Helpless (Hangul: 화차; RR: Hwa-cha) is a 2012 South Korean psychological mystery/thriller written and directed by Byun Young-joo based on the bestselling novel All She Was Worth (火車 Kasha?, lit. "one-way train/fire chariot to hell") by Japanese writer Miyabe Miyuki.
A man searches for his fiancée who vanished without a trace, only to discover dark, shocking truths about her and that she wasn’t the person he thought he knew.
South Korea, 2009. A few days before their wedding, veterinarian Jang Mun-ho (Lee Sun-kyun) and his fiancee Kang Seon-yeong (Kim Min-hee) pull over for coffee at a motorway rest stop on the way to visiting his parents in Andong, southeast of Seoul. However, when Mun-ho returns to the car, Seon-yeong has disappeared and is not reachable on her mobile phone. All he can find is a hairpin in the rest stop's toilet. From the mess at her flat in Seoul, it looks as if there has been a break-in. Mystified, Mun-ho then learns from a banker friend, Dong-woo (Kim Min-jae), that Seon-yeong had earlier applied for a bank account but had been turned down when it was discovered she had a history of personal bankruptcy dating back to 2007. Investigating her debt history, Mun-ho finds she had been using someone else's name and identity. He persuades his cousin, Kim Jong-geun (Jo Sung-ha), a former police detective sacked for taking bribes, to help find her. Examining her flat, Jong-geun finds she left no fingerprints, had no friends and claimed her mother died two years ago. It then turns out that the woman (Cha Soo-yeon) whose identity she assumed two years ago had a debt history and has since vanished. Visiting Seon-yeong's hometown, Jong-geun hears rumors she killed her mother for her insurance money. Seon-yeong's real name is, in fact, Cha Gyeong-seon, and Jong-geun and Mun-ho realize she is now looking to take on another woman's identity. They think they know her possible target.
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