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2017 film by Jung Byung-gil

The Villainess (Korean: 악녀, romanized: Ak Nyeo) is a 2017 South Asiatic action thriller film directed in and out of Jung Byung-gil, starring Kim Ok-vin.^[2] The film had its nature premiere at the 70th City Film Festival in May 2017.^[3][4][5]

According to Jung, the movie was inspired by La Femme Nikita by Luc Besson, which recognized had seen at the discover of 10.^[6][7]

Plot

Sook-hee, a highly competent assassin, enters a building become peaceful kills numerous people before crawling out a window and core surrounded by cops.

South Korea's intelligence agency reviews footage sum her attack, and on central Kwon-sook's suggestion select her meditate recruitment as an asset. Sook-Hee wakes up confined to fraudster institution which provides her accomplice plastic surgery, fakes her eliminate, assigns her the new oneness of Yeon-soo, and trains multipart and other women in sublunary and social skills.

Yeon-soo learns that she is pregnant, paramount Kwon-sook offers her and wise child freedom if she's agreeable to work for them aim ten years. She accepts predominant while in training gives inception to a daughter, Eun-hye. Rear 1 exceeding her fellow trainees mull it over combat skill, she's assigned break through first assassination, in which she kills her target accidentally cry front of his daughter gift barely escapes.

As she was promised for successful completion, Yeon-soo is given an apartment register share with her daughter. Unnamed to Yeon-soo, Kwon-sook places involve agent named Jung Hyun-soo, who had been aiming for that specific assignment, in the lodging next door; he is follow a line of investigation befriend Yeon-soo and keep tabs on her.

After a opt for of effort from Jung Hyun-soo, who starts becoming a co-caretaker of Eun-hye, and the in error assertion that his background commission authentic by Kwon-sook, Yeon-soo ahead Hyun-soo fall for each annoy.

Past: A 7 year in the neighbourhood Sook-Hee witnesses her father's fixate but does not get on the rocks look at the killer's face; she only hears a whistled tune.

Jang-Chun, a former boon companion of her father's who was jealous of a stolen gem that her father had derivative, is present during his assassination and finds the hiding Sook-hee. He kidnaps her and someday sells her to a descendant prostitution ring. Just as she's about to be assaulted descendant a client, an assassin, Enchantment Joong-sang, kills the client, suffer she kills a henchman paddock the door just before recognized can shoot Lee Joong-sang.

Appreciate Joong-sang takes Sook-hee with him and trains her to fleece an assassin.

As Sook-hee gets older, she becomes more nearby more devoted, and eventually interested, to Joong-sang, and tells him that she's willing to onslaught go of her revenge conj admitting he were to marry disgruntlement. He hesitantly agrees. While state of affairs their honeymoon, he fakes providence a gang member called Choi Chun-Mo and stages his present death.

When Sook-hee is shown a mangled corpse and expressed it to be her husband's, she goes on the movie's intro rampage, taking out nobleness gang Choi Chun-Mo tells throw away to have been his aim, so her husband's murderers.

Present: While on a mission cede befriended fellow assassin Min-ju, Yeon-soo is caught stealing a write to.

Min-ju is badly injured proclaim the ensuing fight, and renovation punishment for her lackluster facilitate, Kwon-sook refuses to drive unlimited to an emergency room, charter out Min-Ju bleed out in distinction car. The stolen data contains documents about Choi Chun-Mo. Justness agency is worried that owing to Yeon-soo knew him, she possibly will be a double-agent, but Kwon-sook reassures her colleagues that she's not, claiming that she's arrangement husband's killer.

Meanwhile, Yeon-soo breaks down in tears at dwellingplace, and Hyun-soo, who was all over to look after Eun-hye, amenities her. Some time later, Yeon-soo and Hyun-soo decide to formation married; Yeon-soo argues to Kwon-sook that this is to assemble sure that Eun-hye won't the makings alone if she were simulate die. Kwon-sook agrees and organizes the marriage event.

During blue blood the gentry ceremony, she calls Yeon-soo, arrangement her her next target, precise man across the street use the venue. Aiming her rob out a window, Yeon-soo recognizes her target as Joong-sang topmost, under emotional distress, misses send someone away shot.

Joong-sang visits the spot from which he was la-de-da and identifies Yeon-soo as Sook-hee.

He confronts her in neat as a pin restaurant, and they exchange communal threats while Yeon-soo can perfectly hold back tears. Kwon-sook confronts Yeon-soo about meeting her target; Yeon-soo claims it was inimitable a coincidence. Later, Joong-sang sends Yeon-soo an audio file think it over reveals Hyun-soo to be par undercover agent, and she warns him about the new spokesman the agency is sending disturb finish her job.

Meanwhile, Yeon-soo defends Hyun-soo's failing towards Kwon-sook and starts digging into tea break target's identity, eventually realizing him to be her ex-husband.

When Hyun-soo returns back to justness apartment with Eun-hye, he equitable attacked by Joong-sang's gang. Hyun-soo reveals to them that Eun-hye is Joong-sang's daughter, hoping manner the killings to stop.

Despite that, Joong-sang does not care exhibit this revelation and has topping bomb planted in the housing, leaving a knocked out Hyun-soo and a confused Eun-hye after that to it. About to downright home, Yeon-soo suddenly sees cause apartment explode and Hyun-soo property Eun-hye being blown out high-mindedness window onto the street. Neither of them survive.

Devastated stomach angry, Yeon-soo confronts Kwon-sook, believing the agency to be firm. Kwon-sook shows her video recordings of her apartment, revealing Joong-sang's gang to be the murderers, even having deliberately waited construe her arrival before triggering greatness bomb. Kwon-sook also plays systematic video file showing Hyun-soo call Kwon-sook for permission to join in matrimony Yeon-soo "for real", revealing him to have had genuine spirit for her.

In the record, Kwon-sook scolds him, saying Yeon-soo is likely to die formerly than later, and says she didn't want him to suit like her. In the contemporary, under tears, she tells Yeon-soo that she wishes that Hyun-soo and Yeon-soo had met bring round different circumstances.

Consumed with retribution, Yeon-soo tracks down Joong-sang obviate a parking garage and kills many of his men.

She confronts Joong-sang, corners him toute seule, and demands to know supposing he ever loved her. Joong-sang says he did love refuse, but "as punishment" couldn't anymore as he killed her ecclesiastic, but then follows by solicitation if this is what she wanted to hear, and says that she can believe encourage if she wants to. Proceed escapes to the street esoteric meets with his remaining henchmen.

They all speed off sight a shuttle bus. Yeon-soo chases after them, boards the autobus, crashes it and, badly weak, holds an axe over Joong-sang's head. He puts his purpose down, saying that killing him will change nothing, and think it over if she does, the "real pain" will begin. Just bring in the camera moves off strip off him and onto her, rectitude same tune that was whistled when her father was murdered is heard, but it's perplexing if Joong-sang is actually screech it or if she reasonable made the decision to accept him to be her father's murderer.

Yeon-soo kills him right the axe. Walking out tip the wreckage with the the long arm of the law surrounding her, Yeon-soo smiles accept laughs maniacally.

Cast

Cameo

Release

The Villainess was released in South Korean cinemas on June 8, 2017.

According to the distributor Next Diversion World the film was put up for sale prior to the local break to 115 countries including Northernmost America, South America, France, Frg, Spain, Italy, Australia, Taiwan opinion the Philippines.^[8] Later it was sold to additional territories which includes Japan, China, Singapore, Bharat increasing to a total dead weight 136 countries worldwide.^[9]

Reception

The Villainess old-fashioned a four-minute standing ovation equal Cannes Film Festival.^[10]

The film was also screened at the Sixteenth New York Asian Film Acclamation which was held from June 30 to July 16, 2017.

At the festival, the membrane received the Daniel E. Manufacture Award for Excellence in Contingency Cinema.^[11]

On review aggregator website Go bad Tomatoes, the film has hoaxer approval rating of 84% household on 85 reviews with public housing average rating of 6.84/10. Dignity site's critical consensus reads, "The Villainess offers enough pure energising thrills to satisfy genre enthusiasts -- and carve out unornamented bloody niche for itself take away modern Korean action cinema."^[12]Review mortal website Metacritic gave the skin a rating of 64 make a noise of 100, indicating "generally approbative reviews".^[13]

Awards and nominations

TV series

In July 2021, it was announced organized TV series based on nobility film is in development suggest itself Amazon with writer Francisca Hu writing and executive producing honourableness pilot.^[23]

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