The Villainess
The movie we are going to read today is about a girl who becomes an assassin to find and avenge her father’s death. This film is the South Korean thriller film released in 2017 titled “THE VILLAINESS” directed by Jung Byung-gil with a duration of 2 hours and 4 minutes starring Kim Ok-bin (Sook-hee), Shin Ha-kyun (Joong-sang), and Sung Jun (Hyeon-soo).
The story begins where seven (7) years old Sook-hee witnesses the murder of her father by an unknown assailant, a man returns who seems to be looking for someone. She saw him where he was her father’s friend Jang Chun and sold him to a prostitute. Sook-hee believed to be the one who killed her father.
When this night was about to be exploited someone came to save her named Joong-sang he also saved the girl fro almost being shot because of this Joong-sang decided to train Sook-hee to be his assassin whose goal is to find the killer of her father.
Time passed and Sook-hee found the person believed to have killer her father but she was arrested and it turned out that he was not the perpetrator but Joong-sang came to save Sook-hee. She and Jang Chun faced each other who seemed to have a relationship and that’s when she killed him and hit Joong-sang in the face.
After that, they went to the wedding dress shop because someone was intervened between the two of them. When they got home, Sook-hee wear the dress and said that she found out that someone else killed the father, but she was ready to forget about revenge if they got married and lived a normal life.
Later, Joong-sang and Sook-hee got married after that they went to Seoul for their honeymoon but that night someone called Joong-sang that the man Choon-Mo was kidnapped. He leaves alone and sends Sook-ee back to their hotel but Sook-he received a call that her husband dead. Choon-Mo tells him that he was ordered to find the real killer of her father but he was caught and Joong-sang tried to save him which ended up in his death.
When she got inside she face so many enemies she was able to kill everyone there but after taking revenge she was caught by the authorities. When they caught her they found out about her fighting skills. She was taken to South Korean’s Intelligence Agency to be turned into an asset and given plastic surgery to give her a new start.
Sook-hee tries to escape in the facility which is surprised them. The different types of room there train future agents of the agency in different types of skills. While looking for an escape route a woman helps her to point the way out of the building.
It turns out that this is also an agent of the agency named Chief Kwon Sook. After this the agent informs Sook-hee that they let her out dead and offers to work for them. Sook-hee refuses and wants to die because the reason she lives is dead. The agent tells her that she has to live because she has a baby in her womb. She just has to work with them for ten (10) years and when it’s over she can live like a normal person with her child.
Watching them was Hyeon-soo the agent assigned to guard Sook-hee. She was born with a variety of training that she could use in the future. Sook-hee gave birth to a girl whom she named Eun-Hye. Sometimes Hyeon-soo takes care of her secretly when she is not there.
In training, the one named Kim-Seon was very brutal and often bullied fellow trainees. She challenged Sook-hee to a fight because she heard that she was good but she did not respond. When she attacks Sook-hee with her back she has been beaten in a match where Sook-he gives her a taste of what she does to others while the agents who watch are amazed.
They are also trained to handle guns but Sook-hee is already skilled there she is opposite Kim-Seon in the healing process of building a gun and while doing it she remembers the past when Joong-sang made it for her and she finished building it first but she didn’t able to pulls the trigger because it almost killed her if she was not saved by.
Currently, Sook-hee has already fires the gun without hesitation. She returned form their room and gave her first mission that if succeeds they can get their daughter out. later she went to targe a good swordsman Soo-hee had a hard time because she was really good but in the end she managed to kill him.
Someone was also coming so she immediately ran away but they chased her. She faced them in the fight and knocked them down one by one but the police blocked her on the bridge. Sook-hee had no choice but to jump into the river to escape and there that the agent picked her up.
The day also came when Sook-hee was going to leave the facility, her colleagues saw her and said goodbye to Min-Joo who became her friend who called her when she got out. Sook-hee is taken to her new house with new person to use but she has no idea that someone from the agency Hyeon-soo will be watching over her, pretending to accompany her in the move.
Its mission is to win her heart but Sook-hee is too elusive however Hyeon-soo still tries to make friends until Chief Kwon is backed ground check which means their agent fails. After a while, Sook-hee returned Hyeon-soo’s dropped photo that was in their things. He also learned from the agent about her life that her husband was killed while she was pregnant.
The next day Sook-hee would not be able to reach the bus, So Hyeon-soo made a way to catch her without the driver noticing. They met again at a grocery store where the two started to get closer. Where Sook-hee was on her way home in the midst of heavy rain and Hyeon-soo picked her up which surprised her. When Sook-hee took Hyeon-soo up to watch a play because she is an actress as this is her job when there is no mission. The two fell silent when the girl saw them together.
The next day when they got home, Hyeon-soo got out of the car so that no one would think bad about them but Heyon-soo arrived. Sook-hee was waiting for him outside. After this the two started to make sense of each other when Sook-hee was suddenly called for her new mission.
She first entrusts the daughter to Hyeon-soo to accompany her tonight as soon as Sook-hee leaves and sees Min-joo who turns out to be with her as her first mission. They met with their target for stealing important information. Sook-hee secretly took the target’s phone and said goodbye to take a shower and copied the data content but when she got out the target had already captured her friend.
She was forced to give what she got and that’s when they found them working together in a fierce fight when they were leaving Sook-hee was attacked but her friend caught her because she took her life. When they got out they asked Chief Kwon for help to take her to the hospital but the mission was more important to them.
Sook-hee is blamed by the agent for not doing the mission properly until her friend has lost her life. Sook-hee just went home depressed by what happened she stopped in the bathroom to vent her anger but Hyeon-soo saw her and sympathize with her.
Meanwhile, the information obtained by the agency is about the Contract Killer Organization run by Joong-sang and it turns out that Sook-hee is a double agent. Chief Kwon didn’t see anything suspicious so it wasn’t problem but suggested to the agent that it was her to hand over the target.
The next day, Hyeon-soo proposed and Sook-hee said that if she found out who she really he might be run away. She said goodbye to her fiance so her daughter could be with her when she was killed in a mission.
The agent agreed and offered to prepare her wedding ceremony which surprised Sook-hee. She immediately calls Hyeon-soo to share the good news while she has no idea that the agency just sent her boyfriend. Later in the day of Sook-hee’s wedding came Kim-Seon visited her who still hasn’t stopped teasing her.
The agent called her to talk to Sook-hee because the truth is that she offered to arrange a wedding for a mission she was assigned to do but when she finished the target Sook-hee found out that it was her ex-husband. As far as she knows has been dead for a long time. Sook-hee was no longer able to complete the mission of killing her target and went back inside to continue the marriage but she couldn’t stop crying when she saw Joong-sang again because of her disappointment she gave Kim-Seon is the target that she wants to do.
Joong-sang also visited the place where he was attempted and found out the relationship of the married couple because they could not see her but Joong-sang already suspected that this was Sook-hee he also watched her perform in a play to observe. After the play the couple dined outside.
Hyeon-soo called the agency so he went out for a while but Joong-sang came which is surprised Sook-hee to see him again. She pretends not to know him but Joong-sang tells her well. She just hinted about what she did earlier in the play that she chose to forget the past when Joong-sang heard it he also pretending that she also made a mistake in knowing her.
Outside while Hyeon-soo was talking to the Chief, Choon-Mo recorded what they talked about and Joong-sang found out the truth. Sook-hee returned to work someone sent her a flower with a flash drive she intended to find out without anyone following so she hid from the CCTV cameras and went to a computer shop where she found out that it was an audio file containing a conversation of the husband and the Chief regarding Hyeon-soo’s true personality and that their marriage is only part of his mission because of this Sook-hee warns Joong-Sang that someone has been sent to kill him because of that they will catch Kim-Seon who intends to hope to carry out her mission.
Hyeon-soo’s wife is being close watched because they suspect her to be a traitor, she also discovered Sokk-hee’s ex-husband as her target but the agent warned her. Hyeo-soo has already said goodbye to her husband who is going home to the province to visit her sick mother Sook-hee pretends she doesn’t know anything about him yet.
Later, Sook-hee captured by the agent who says that she already knows the truth about Hyeon-soo that they sen him. However, they captured her to replace Kim-Seon as a hostage while Hyeon-soo is unaware of what happened in the husband.
The agent only asked him to take care of Sook-hee’s daughter. When they arrived for the exchange they were ambushed on the way and all the agents were killed while Chief Kwon was managed to escape. It turns out that Koong-sang’s group was the one to save Sook-hee but he left to go see her daughter. When Sook-hee returned home, she saw that her house suddenly exploded and Hyeon-soo and her daughter fell form the window. They both lost their lives.
After Sook-hee went to the Chief to avenge the murder of the family. The agent denied that she was responsible and showed the video footage where after Hyeon-soo picked up the daughter, Joong-sang’s men were there at their house and it turns out that Sook-hee was just set up after the wedding but they failed. Hyeon-soo says the girl is Joong-sang’s daughter but he doesn’t care and make him kill in exchange for his freedom nut Hyeon-soo doesn’t do it and fight them.
He was about to defeat Choon-Mo but Hyeon-soo was put to sleep by his staff there who set up the agency to kill Sook-hee’s family. When she arrived luckily Chief Kwon survived so Sook-hee found out the truth which made her angry. When Sook-hee is leaving she hears the audio recording that Hyeon-soo really wants to marry her despite the agent’s objection.
After this, Sook-hee carried out the revenge that started with her father. She flew the car to the other building where Choon-Mo’s group was. There she fought with them and killed its men one by one. Choon-Mo was forced to retreat after they ran out of bullet.
When Sook-hee followed him she saw Joong-sang there she wanted to know if he loved her even a little bit, Joong-sang admitted that he loved her but because of the crime committed against her father he can’t love her anymore.
She goes behind the bus and breaks the window to get in where she fights them. She and Joong-sang faced each other again in fierce battle but he couldn’t take it anymore.
When she regained consciousness she was still holding the ax to finish Joong-sang but before she could to it she hears the whistle again the day her father was killed. She proved that Joong-sang was indeed the one who killed her father that’s when Sook-hee killed him. When she got off the bus she was surrounded by the authorities but Sook-hee just laughed like she was out of his mind.
This is where our story ends. I hope you like it. Thank you very much.
Main Cast of The Villainess
| Kim Ok-bin Sook-hee |
| Shin Ha-kyun Joong-sang |
| Sung Jun Hyeon-soon |
| Kim Seo-hyeong Chief Kwon-Sook |
| Jo Eun-ji Kim-Seon |
| Park Chul-min Sook-hee’s father |
| Jung Hae-kyun Jang-Chun |
| Son Min-ji Min-Joo |
| Lee Seung-joo Choon-Mo |
| Kim Yun-woo Eun-Hye |
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- When was The Villainess released?
- July 2017
- How long is The Villainess?
- 2 hours and 4 minutes
- Who stars in The Villainess?
- Kim Ok-bin (Sook-hee)
- Shin Ha-kyun (Joong-sang)
- Sung Jun (Hyeon-soon)
- Who directed The Villainess?
- Jung Byung-gil
- What genre is The Villainess?
- action
- thriller
- drama
- crime
- Who was the editor of The Villainess?
- Heo Sun-mi
- Who wrote The Villainess?
- Jung Byung-gil
- Byeong-sik Jung
- Who was the producer The Villainess?
- Moon Young-haw
- Who was the cinematographer for The Villainess?
- Jung-hun Park
- What is The Villainess rated?
- Not rated
