One last job is never the last. Deliver Us from Evil, Hong Won-chan's 2020 South Korean crime thriller, sends a retired hitman from Japan to Thailand on a rescue mission, with Hwang Jung-min and Lee Jung-jae on opposite sides of the chase.
What is Deliver Us from Evil about?
In-nam has lived quietly in Japan as a contract killer, and he has just finished the assignment he swore would close that chapter. Then word reaches him that a woman from his past, now living in Thailand, has had her young daughter kidnapped. Whatever he owes her, it is enough to put him back on the road. He passes briefly through Incheon, where Yoo-yi, a bar worker with reasons of her own, becomes an unexpected ally, and then continues into Southeast Asia to track the child down. He is not travelling unnoticed. Ray, a gangster whose brother In-nam killed on that supposedly final job, has picked up the trail and wants blood. The film runs these two pursuits in parallel: In-nam searching for a kidnapped girl in an unfamiliar country, and Ray closing in on In-nam, until the two collide.
About the cast
Hwang Jung-min anchors the film as In-nam, with Lee Jung-jae as the relentless Ray and Park Jung-min as Yoo-yi, the Incheon bar worker who joins the search. Choi Hee-seo plays the woman from In-nam's past whose daughter is taken. The supporting ensemble includes Oh Dae-hwan, Park Myung-hoon, Song Young-chang and Lee Seo-hwan. Hong Won-chan directs.
Context & significance
Deliver Us from Evil arrived in 2020 as a Korean production whose story moves well beyond the peninsula, across Japan, Incheon and Thailand. At roughly one hundred and eight minutes, it runs on the familiar engine of the hitman thriller, the final job that refuses to stay finished, but the kidnapping plot gives the violence a purpose and a clock. The pairing of Hwang Jung-min and Lee Jung-jae, two of the most recognisable leading men in contemporary Korean cinema, is a large part of its draw. The Southeast Asian setting leaves the protagonist on foreign ground with no network and no language, which raises the stakes of every encounter.
Watching Deliver Us from Evil on Ktime
Deliver Us from Evil is on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles. The page is free to read; to watch, sign in with a K-Time account. Everything from the catalogue to the player runs in Farsi, built for Iranians living outside the country.