This is the reason Director Park Chanwook conjured up only Actor Park Haeil when casting detective Haejun, the main character of Decision to Leave. If you have watched Park Haeil's representative films so far, you will be somewhat surprised. He has always fascinated audiences with the 'unplumbed' characters in the movies.

Let's recall Actor Park Haeil's masterpieces. A young man suspected of a serial killer, who everyone thinks is the real culprit in Bong Joonho's Memories of Murder(2003). The young man pleads not guilty with a clear, innocent face, but everything surrounding him is just suspicious. Park Haeil's innocent face, who plays the role, seems rather creepy. The main character of the romance movie, Rules of Dating(2005), keeps pestering women to 'sleep together' with a cute boy-like face. In Eungyo(2012), which became a hot topic with Park Haeil, who transformed into an old man, the actor played a genius poet in his 70s, ruining his life enthralled by the youth of a high school girl in her teens. The moment Park Haeil appears in the movie, we wait for a twisted story hidden behind his boy-like innocent face.

However, Director Park Chanwook was deeply impressed by Park Haeil's 'Dignity and Self-esteem,' which is a 'condition for a noble human,' when he saw the character Janghan Park Haeil played in The Last Princess in 2016. Just in time, Director Park Chanwook needed a 'gentleman-like detective' that had never appeared in Korean films. Ironically, Park Haeil never played a detective role in 20 years since his debut, perhaps because the suspect character in Memories of Murder was too intense. It was the perfect condition for a completely strange, fascinating, and new detective to be born. As a result, Park Haeil stood on the red carpet at Cannes for the first time in his life with Director Park Chanwook's Decision to Leave. Now, it is no exaggeration to say that Park Haeil's representative film is Decision to Leave.

Park Haeil's acting in Decision to Leave is as hard as a mountain and as ever-changing as a wave. After meeting beautiful Seorae, a prime suspect and the wife of a man who died from a fall in the mountain, the detective suspects and tracks her and falls in love with her. Eventually, the love ruins this dignified detective. The whole process goes so intimately that it remains an intense 'cold case' that sweeps everything away in the end. In the film, where misunderstandings and confusion, doubts and beliefs intersect moment by moment, Park Haeil shows the character who takes a firm center like a mountain and creates ever-changing feelings like a wave.

For the past 20 years, the seasoned strength of Park Haeil, who has explored almost all genres, including romance, comedy, action, drama, period drama, and fantasy, starting with the theatrical stage, has exploded in Decision to Leave. And this will be the beginning of a new era where we meet Park Haeil, who we have never seen before. In the summer of 2022, he will play Admiral Yi Sunsin, the best hero in Korean history, in HANSAN: RISING DRAGON, the prequel of ROARING CURRENTS, the top box office hit film in Korean cinema history. Also, the road movie Heaven: To the Land of Happiness, where he stars with Choi Minshik, is also ready to be released. by Park Hyeeun