Commitment

Synopsis: After his father's botched espionage mission, North Korean Myung-hoon and his young sister Hye-in are sent to a labor prison camp. In order to save his sister's life, Myung-hoon "volunteers" to become a spy and infiltrates the South as a teenage defector. While attending high school in the South (his cover), he meets another girl named Hye-in and rescues her when she comes under attack by school bullies. South Korean Intelligence soon discovers Myung-hoon's activities and begins tracking him, all the while as his own government sends a vicious assassin to eliminate him.
Genre: Action, Drama
Director(s): Hong-soo Park
Production: Well Go USA
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
36
Rotten Tomatoes:
40%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
113 min
Website
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1

2009, Seoul

Here, on the house.

Thank you for everything.

I'll miss this.

Do you have a lover

in the North?

- Would you like to see?

- Sure.

So pretty!

You're a greedy man,

not just one lover!

- Let me pour you one.

- Sure.

When will you come back

to the North?

Don't be so chatty,

have your drink and go on.

Please stay healthy.

Go back and

forget what happened,

and have a wonderful life.

Go on now!

Li Young-ho! Surrender!

There's no other way!

You got nowhere to run.

How do you think we found you?

The North has already

abandoned you!

Don't make a scene.

Li! What are you doing?!

Sniper unit, report.

Freeze!

- Target in range.

- Ready to fire.

Li Young-ho!

Yoduk Labor Prison Camp

Reporting, colonel!

Are you Li Young-ho's son?

How old are you?

18, sir.

Myung-hoon...

An award from our great leader

as youth movement...

If it wasn't for your traitor father,

you'd have gone far.

My father is not a traitor.

Don't get worked up,

I'm not interested in that.

Myung-hoon, would you

like to leave here?

Is that possible?

There is a way.

For you and your sister

to leave here alive,

there's just one way.

What is that?

Become an agent.

THE COMMITMEN 2 years later

2011, Seoul

Unit 8, Comrade Kim Sun-myung.

Head of Recon Bureau Unit 8,

Kim Sun-myung.

He defected in 1992,

and ran a shell company.

These 3 are known sleeper cells.

All in the Unit 8,

and all died by the same suspect.

The lefty who uses Tokarev.

This is the CCTV footage.

He looks to be a skilled assassin

from the North.

Assassin?

All victims were from Unit 8,

they did not betray, but one day,

they were wiped out by an assassin.

It's part of a power struggle after

Kim Jong-il's health deteriorated.

Anti-Republic of Korea threw

the first punch.

A small drifting boat was rescued

from Japanese open sea,

and defectors reached

Incheon Airport today.

A group of 4 men,

4 women, and 2 children,

received support from

Nagasaki immigration,

and they all desired

to be in South Korea.

After debriefing their defection route,

they'll receive relocation support...

Name?

Kang Dae-ho.

Age?

19 years old.

Why did you defect?

I wanted to live like a human.

By yourself?

What about family?

They're all dead.

Please call in once a month

for a checkup.

Foster Care Agreement

Please call in once a month

for a checkup.

Dae-ho's quiet and gruff,

but he's a gentle soul.

Please take good care of him,

thank you again.

We should be thankful.

For Dae-ho and you,

could I say a prayer?

Pardon?

Give me your hand.

Our dear Lord,

thank you for your generosity.

You've given us...

About 20 years now.

Are you shocked?

I'm sure Dae-ho's your alias,

what's your real name?

Enough!

Who cares?

I am his foster mother after all,

I should know.

I like his reticent personality.

Come on in.

Go rest up now.

This way.

This is your room.

You must be tired.

Who'd suspect

a teenage agent, right?

No good will come out of

getting involved.

Why?

Will he rob our safe?

Until the package is shipped,

don't leave the house unattended.

Which unit?

Unit 8, Special Ops.

You must be well trained then.

There's only one rule here.

Just stay out of our business.

Then we won't take interest in yours too.

I was looking forward to

a new family member.

No need for strong words

on our first dinner.

You have to wake up

early tomorrow.

Students study really hard here.

Sunrise till midnight.

Are you serious?

Everyone, attention!

We got a new transfer student.

Introduce yourself.

My name is Kang Dae-ho,

pleased to meet you.

That was dull.

Take that empty seat.

I'm begging you,

don't use cellphones in class.

Okay.

Dismissed.

Hurry up!

Lee Hye-in

Where were you yesterday?

Hye-in, got our money yet?

Let's do some accounting later.

She's a mute again.

She never answers right away.

What do you think?

My heart just stopped.

I'll f***ing whip you.

Check out his fierce eyes.

Stand down, boy.

What a piece of work.

B*tch...

He's been working out.

Stand the f*** down, a**hole.

Jackpot! Brand new bills!

If you don't want trouble,

keep your mouth shut.

Who's this?!

She's cute, who is it?

She looks Chinese though.

I think this f***'s from Yanbian.

Are you from Yanbian?

Korean-Chinese?

Take the wallet and walk away.

What the f***'s this?

You asswipes!

I saw this coming.

Come here.

You heard me!

Let's go.

Just my luck...

One, two, three...

Again.

What happened to your face?

Did they hurt you?

Is your name Lee Hye-in?

Yeah.

Why are they bothering you?

No reason at all.

And down.

I was never here.

What is it?

So who got caught playing

games during class?

You? Or you?

It's you then.

I knew you were

up to no good!

Who was late today,

raise your hand!

Me!

Don't bother trying to

skip the cleaning duty.

- Got it?

- Yes!

- Dismissed!

- Dismissed!

Hey, Yanbian!

Hear that?

Clean the windows too.

Spotless.

Don't wanna?

You got a new friend to help you.

I'll kill you if you take off.

Get to it!

This is your mission in the South.

The victims were all

sleeper cells from our unit.

They must've been killed by

an agent from Section 35.

Buk Doo-sung, Section 35's agent.

First, make contact with our network,

and gather necessary gears.

Find Buk and eliminate him.

Evening!

You have it ready?

I had a great dream.

I see.

I'd like a cake.

No decorations.

There are plenty of candles.

Who is it?

Delivery.

Who are you?

Who sent you?

Where's Buk Doo-sung?

Never heard of him.

One last time, where is Buk?

F***, and you'll let me live?

Okay, wait, wait!

There's a guy

who saw him once.

He's a butcher.

Sh*t!

You're a trash.

Total trash.

Clean it up.

Hye-in

What's with him?

Yo, Yanbian,

you two look good together.

Have fun with her.

Love between

a Yanbian and a loner.

Here, there's some more.

They look so good!

A. During zygote's development,

the sex chromosomes don't separate.

Or B. Sperm's chromosomes

did not separate.

Hey, newbie.

What did I just say?

Solve question #18.

X chromosome comes from the mother,

and nondisjunction in the father

causes Turner Syndrome.

It is a chromosomal abnormality,

in which all or part of

one of the sex chromosomes

is absent or has

other abnormalities,

and not caused by remaining chromosomes.

Since B and C are correct,

5 is the answer.

Right, very good.

Okay, let's move on

to question #19.

Check remaining questions

with the answer sheet.

Good work.

Hye-in, let's try together.

Sorry, I thought it was empty.

I was just leaving.

Don't just toss your shoes!

What is it?

Move aside.

Yo, loner!

What are you doing

in our practice room?

Did you dance?

She danced!

Can't you see

I'm talking to you?

Dance for us.

If you're good,

you can use this room.

Heard you danced

in middle school.

Pharmacy

- All here.

- All here.

He's with us, don't worry.

Go to sleep now.

Who was that?

Son.

Son?

He fell from the sky.

Where you going at this hour?

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