A routine transfer at sea turns into a fight for survival in Project Wolf Hunting, a 2022 South Korean thriller that traps its most dangerous passengers together on a single cargo ship.
What is Project Wolf Hunting about?
A group of extradited criminals is loaded onto a cargo vessel bound from the Philippines to South Korea, watched over by a security detail confident the crossing will be routine. Confined corridors and a skeleton crew give the prisoners an opening, and it is not long before the balance of control on board starts to shift. As the voyage drags on, the ship reveals it is hiding something far more dangerous than any one inmate, forcing captors and captives alike into an uneasy scramble for the same goal: getting off the ship alive.
About the cast
Seo In-guk and Jang Dong-yoon lead an ensemble that includes Park Ho-san, Jung So-min, and Sung Dong-il, spanning both the prisoners and the officers assigned to guard them. Director Kim Hong-sun keeps the cast largely confined to the ship's tight passageways and holds, using the setting itself to raise the tension between the film's shifting factions.
Context & significance
Project Wolf Hunting sits at the intersection of crime thriller and science-fiction horror, a combination that sets it apart from more straightforward prison-transport stories. Its confined, single-location setting is central to the film's design, turning the cargo ship into as much a character as any of the people trapped aboard it.
Watching Project Wolf Hunting on Ktime
Project Wolf Hunting streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking audiences full access to a film built around escalating claustrophobic tension. The page is free to browse and a free K-Time account login unlocks playback, with the platform's Farsi-first interface making Korean genre cinema like this easy to find.