2021｜93 MIN | Action, Thriller

DIRECTOR Pil Gamseong

CAST Hwang Jungmin, Kim Jaebum, Lee Yumi, Ryu Gyeongsu 

RELEASE DATE August 18, 2021

CONTACT Contents Panda

Tel : +82 2 3490 9300 

Fax : +82 2 6902 0286 

Email : webmaster@its-new.co.kr

Box office titan Hwang Jungmin, whose intimidating run of hits includes Ode to My Father (2014), Veteran (2015), The Himalayas (2015), The Wailing (2016), The Spy Gone North (2018), and DELIVER US FROM EVIL (2020), is back in theaters this summer with a new film that plays on his celebrity status as he appears as himself. The film reunites him with Filmmakers R & K, the company run by director Ryoo Seungwan and producer Kang Hyejung, after The Unjust (2010), Veteran and The Battleship Island (2017). In the director’s chair is debut filmmaker Pil Gamseong. Hostage: Missing Celebrity is the second work from Filmmakers R & K this summer, following Director Ryoo’s Escape from Mogadishu.

Top Korean movie star Hwang Jungmin attends the VIP premiere of his latest film, but as he leaves the event, he is kidnapped by an unknown group of people. At first, Jungmin believes he is being subjected to a practical joke, but before long, the violence demonstrated by his captors convinces him that this is no joke. Jungmin attempts to find a way out of his predicament while the kidnappers demand a large ransom, which must be paid out within 24 hours. Despite his ample on-screen experience as an action and thriller star, Jungmin discovers that violence in real life is very different from the way it is in the movies.