I, the Executioner's Ryoo Seung-Wan Reveals Why Making Movies in Korea is Different From America

South Korea has redefined the action genre over the past twenty-five years. Park Chan Wook's Oldboy exploded the revenge thriller paradigm forever, offering one of cinema's greatest twist endings. Kim Jee-woon's The Good the Bad The Weird showed audiences a modern Western they could never have dreamed of, and Yeon Sang-ho's Train to Busan perfected the balanced chemistry of exquisite action set pieces, blood-curdling horror, and tear-inducing character drama. Now it's the cop drama's turn for South Korean reinvention as Ryoo Seung-Wan's sequel to Veteran, I, the Executioner, enjoys its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
In I, the Executioner, Detective Seo Do-cheol (Hwang Jung-min) and his Major Crime Investigation Division tirelessly track down criminals day and night, often at the expense of their personal lives. When a murder links to past cases, suspicions of a serial killer arise, terrifying the country. As Major Crimes delves into the investigation, the killer taunts them by publicly indicating the next victim and intensifying the chaos. To tackle the growing threat, the team brings in idealistic rookie officer Park Sun-woo (Jung Hae-in), leading to unexpected twists in the case.
Director Ryoo Seung-Wan was kind enough to visit the Collider studio at the Cinema Center at MARBL to talk with Steve Weintraub about the differences between the American and Korean film systems, the audience's heightening expectations, and which directors to watch first, having never seen a Korean film before.
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