Ransomed
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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.

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Ha Jung-woo
Lee Min-jun
Ju Ji-hoon
Kim Pan-su
Lim Hyung-kook
Oh Jae-seok
Kim Eung-soo
Director
Kim Jong-soo
Minister Choi
Park Hyeok-kwon
Manager Park
Yoo Seung-mok
Vice-minister Lee
Jang So-yeon
Jae-seok's Wife
Choi Jung-woo
Chief secretary
Burn Gorman
Carter
Nisrine Adam
Leila
Han Soo-hyun
Kim Sung-ho
Chun Sin-hwan
Kim Chi-yong
Lee Sang-won
Middle East Department Staff
Yang Ji-soo
Middle East Department Staff
Han Sung-soo
Middle East Department Staff
Kwon Eun-seong
Oh Jae-seok's son
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Photos Kim Tae-sung
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Location South Korea
Producer Jun Piel-do, Ryu Jeong-hun, Karim Debbagh, Seong Chang-yeon
Director Kim Seong-hun
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CinemaSerf August 26 2023 12:12:44 PM

When a Korean diplomat is kidnapped in war-torn Lebanon, his government is conflicted about paying his ransom demand. It falls to "Min-joon" (Ha Jung-woo) to travel there and execute quite a complex plan to extricate their citizen and stay one step ahead of the warlords and the authorities who all want a share of his rather valuable luggage! Luckily, his airport-escaping antics find him in the back of the taxi driven by "Pan-soo" (Ju Ji-hoon). Now this fellow just happens to be a Korean ex-pat, he's also a slightly dubious character who can think on his feet, and who has had dealings with their government in the past. What now ensues is quite an engaging series of adventures as the pair face more and more perilous tasks trying to stay alive and rescue "Mr Oh"! It is too long, and at times it drags a little - but director Seong Hun Kim manages to create one of the more authentic looking desert adventures featuring loads of gunfire, some rabid dogs, a fun car chase down an alleyway and I found this to be way more watchable than some more recent, bigger budget, action films with Hollywood stars atop them. It's a fun watch this, with a good dynamic between the two men on their quest; the script is occasionally quite funny and the whole thing has a sort of light-heartedness to it that I quite enjoyed. Based on a true story, too - who'd be an emissary?