[ About K-movie Phantom ]
The movie called Phantom that I am introducing now is not the submarine action Phantom of Choi Min-soo and Jung Woo-sung in the past. The film is based on a novel by Chinese writer Mai Zhao called Poongsung (The Sound of the Wind), which was made into a movie in China in 2009 and screened. In Korea, it was released in 2013 and recorded a disastrous audience of 2,000. This ghost remake was directed by Lee Hae-young, a soloist, and filming took place from January to May 2021, with a production cost of 13.7 billion and a break-even point of 3.35 million.
[ Phantom plot ]
Park Cha-gyeong (Lee Ha-nui), who listens to and records the communication code of the Japanese Government-General of Korea, organizes and passes the recorded code, and Lee Baek-ho (Kim Dong-hee) collects the data of the recorders and passes it on to the analysts. Cheon Gye-jang (Seo Hyeon-woo), who analyzes the codes recorded by the Japanese Government-General of Korea, analyzes the data and reports it to Junji Murayama (Seol Gyeong-gu), the supervisor of the Communications Department of the Police Department, and Murayama sets up a schedule based on the codes. Japanese coded messages recorded and analyzed by the Governor-General’s archives are leaked to the outside world, and the operation begins centering on a movie theater.
Eventually, the leaked meeting place of the Japanese military officers is exposed, and when the independence army spy ghost Yoon Nan-young (Esom), whom he met at a movie theater, goes on an operation, high-ranking Japanese officers are killed and injured in an instant, and the ghost Yun Nan-young escapes. Takahara Kaito (Park Hae-soo), the new governor-general’s bodyguard, chases after the ghost Yun Nan-yeong who murdered a Japanese military officer.
When the coded message from the Japanese Government-General of Korea was leaked, Takahara (Park Hae-soo) summoned Murayama (Sol Gyeong-gu), Park Cha-gyeong (Lee Ha-nui), Cheon Gye-jang (Seo Hyun-woo), Lee Baek-ho (Kim Dong-hee), and Yuriko Yoshinaga (Park So-dam), secretary of the Japanese Government-General of Korea, to a remote hotel. It is said that there must be a ghost among these people and that torture will begin for investigation. The ghost of an anti-Japanese organization spy assassin is in danger of being exposed by Kaito Takahara…
[ Phantom Reviews ]
The visual beauty and artistic parts were also quite outstanding, and there were many wonderful scenes such as the movie theater, other buildings, calm props, and scenes in the auditorium curtains. There were many scenes with good details because we took care of the sets and props and made them well to create the atmosphere of the time.
Lee Ha-nui appears from the beginning while revealing that he is a spy for the anti-Japanese independence army to some extent, but the action with Seol Kyung-gu was good. Overall, the fighting action was worth watching and the shooting scenes were good.
In the middle part, the curiosity about whether Seol Gyeong-gu’s identity is on the Japanese side or the Joseon side raises the sense of immersion, and after that, the performance of Park So-dam, a prickly girl who was covered in a veil of swearing, stands out. I think we fought well, but the only thing I remember is the shooting scene. If Lee Ha-nui was a bit heavy, Park So-dam showed faster action, but she was refreshing and pleasant when she held a sniper rifle and shot Japanese soldiers.
There were some childish scenes and some over-the-top scenes, but the actors’ acting skills and visual beauty were good, so I think it was a good movie for killing time.
