Movies by Lim Hyung-kook

Hunt

Hunt

After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other.

Stateless Things

Stateless Things

Jun, a young man of North Korean origin who had illegally emigrated to South Korea, works in a gas station. After protecting a colleague, Sun-hee, a Chinese immigrant of Korean ethnicity, Jun gets fired. When he goes back to the station for his pay, Jun hits the boss and he runs away with Sun-hee. Two young outsiders have a great time exploring the city which they had never seen before. Hyeon is a young homosexual and he is living in his sugar-daddy’s luxury apartment. Hyeon sometimes feels suffocated with his situation. These two finally f...

Ransomed

Ransomed

In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money.

A Midsummer's Fantasia

A Midsummer's Fantasia

Reality and fantasy melds as a Korean documentary film director attempts to capture life in the small town of Gojo, Japan.

Watch Your Back

Watch Your Back

Ku-mok, who lives like a hyena, changes his cell phone at a convenience store. He tells Hwa-young to come to his office to find the replaced cell phone.

The Pot

The Pot

Korean horror hit of 2009. Everything is picture-perfect for a family of three recently moved to Seoul from the countryside. But a religious ritual goes terribly wrong with frightening consequences.

Hysteria

Hysteria

Hye-ju returns from the hospital and reunites with her father, Jung-hyeok, who raised her in a loving family.

Peach

Peach

A woman must move her grandma's tomb, and none of the family wants to assist. She sets off on a lone journey to her grandma's grave site.