Sseom

Oct 15 2004 N/A 1h 58m
Action, Crime, Mystery

Action thriller featuring a dramatic race against time and death. After 10 billion won worth of drugs mysteriously disappear, police officer Kang Sung Joo is faced with the unenviable task of tracking down the perpetrators of the clever coup. During his risky mission for justice, he stumbles into news reporter Seo Yoo Jin who has the gift to foresee the future. To his shock, Kang learns that he will be murdered within 24 hours.

Plot

Close to $10 million of illegal drugs, intended to be presented as evidence in court, is stolen from the police as they are transporting it to the station. The police name as a suspect the man in charge of transporting the evidence, Section Chief Oh (Kang Shin-Il) of the violent crimes division, and an investigation begins. However, a younger colleague Kang Sung-Joo (Ko Soo) who believes that Section Chief Oh is innocent pursues another suspect in hopes of finding the criminal. In a car chase with the suspect, who is driving under the influence of drugs, there is a car crash and the suspect is killed. By tracing phone numbers on the dead man's mobile phone, Sung-joo continues to pursue the investigation, however the next suspect he follows is also killed, and the incident becomes shrouded in mystery. At the same time, while investigating Sung-Joo gets to know a friend of one of the suspects, traffic reporter Seo Yu-Jin (Song Ji-Hyo).Although they are meeting for the first time, both of them get the odd sense that the other person is not unfamiliar, that they have seen each other before. What's more, Yu-Jin in a flash of deja-vu sees Sung-Joo get killed. A city in which black rain falls from a blue sky. Some... 24 hours in which this man and woman, who have given each other the keys to their lives, rush towards a predestined death. At this moment, this is the extent of what we can reveal about the story.

Written by

Eun-Jeong Kim, Eun-shil Kim

Directed by

Yun-hyeon Jang

Production Countries

South Korea

Production Companies

Cinema Service, C&Film

Languages

Awards

1 win

Scores
# of Votes
579
Average Rating
6 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA