What happens to a marriage when one partner has spent years hiding an entire secret career from the other?

What is Mission: Cross about?

Mission: Cross imagines a former intelligence agent who has settled into life as a stay-at-home husband, keeping his old job buried so deep that even his wife — a working detective — has no idea it ever existed. That careful arrangement collapses when a dangerous case pulls them both into the same operation at the same time, forcing him back into old instincts while she starts putting pieces together that were never meant to connect. Director Lee Myung-hoon leans into the mismatch between domestic routine and covert tradecraft, using it as the engine for both the film's action set pieces and its comedy.

About the cast

Hwang Jung-min plays the husband at the center of the deception, with Yum Jung-ah as his wife and Jeon Hye-jin, Jeong Man-sik, Kim Chan-hyung, Kim Ju-hun, Cha Rae-hyung, and Lee Ho-cheol filling out the supporting cast.

Context & significance

The film sits in a well-worn but reliably popular South Korean tradition of blending domestic comedy with high-stakes action, pairing chase sequences and tense standoffs with the more grounded humor of a couple trying to keep their household — and their secrets — from falling apart.

Watching Mission: Cross on Ktime

Mission: Cross streams on K-Time with a Persian dub, inside an interface built around Farsi and the viewing habits of Iranian audiences abroad. The page itself is free to browse; watching the film requires logging into a K-Time account.