Jung Woo sung on HUNT, TIFF 2022

Korean action star Lee Jungjae (The Housemaid, Deliver Us from Evil) makes his directorial debut with this 1980sset thriller, in which he plays an intelligence chief who uncovers a plot to assassinate the president of South Korea while hunting for a mole within his own agency. Set during a period of peak tensions between North and South Korea in the 1980s, Squid Game star Lee Jungjaes directorial debut is an electrifying espionage thriller. Costarring Lee and Korean star Jung Woosung as government agents trying to smoke out a mole, Hunt plunges the viewer into a labyrinth of secrets where nothing is quite what it seems. The result is one of the most impressive action movies in years. Following a failed assassination attempt on South Korean President Chun Doohwan, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park (Lee) and Domestic Unit head Kim (Jung, also at the Festival with his directorial debut, A Man of Reason) are charged with the task of identifying the conspirators. The men share a fraught history some