THE MAN STANDING NEXT

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THE MAN STANDING NEXT

Jan 20, 2020

Writer by Pierce Conran
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2019 | 114MIN | Political Drama

DIRECTOR WOO Min-ho

CAST LEE Byung-hun, LEE Sung-min, KWAK Do-won, LEE Hee-jun, KIM So-jin

RELEASE DATE January 22, 2020

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Looking to replicate the success of Inside Men, which earned over nine million admissions in 2015, director WOO Min-ho and star LEE Byung-hun have teamed up once more for the political drama The Man Standing Next. Rounding out the film’s formidable cast will be LEE Sung-min, KWAK Do-won, LEE Hee-jun and KIM So-jin.

Set in the 1970s, The Man Standing Next focuses on the political machinations of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) during the administration of President PARK, here played by LEE Sung-min of The Spy Gone North (2018). LEE Byung-hun plays KIM Gyu-pyeong, the director of the KCIA and a close collaborator of President Park’s. KWAK Do-won of THE WAILING (2016) plays a former KCIA director who escapes to America, fearing that he knows too much about the shady goings-on at the highest of the government. Tensions escalate as an investigation into Korean governmental practices is underway in the United States.

The Man Standing Next follows a series of films that have taken an interest in exposing the nefarious operations of the KCIA, not to mention other branches of government in modern political history, chiefly JANG Joon-hwan’s acclaimed political drama 1987: When the Day Comes (2017). Director WOO’s last film, the crime saga The Drug King (2018) with SONG Kang-ho, was also set in the 1970s.

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