Original title: 스파이 파파 (Seu-pai Papa)
Year: 2011
Length: 80 min
Color/BW: Color

 

Second feature
Director: HAN Seung-ryong
Cast: LEE Du-il, KIM So-hyeon, MIN Gyeong-jin
Genre: Family, Comedy
Release date: Oct. 27, 2011
Production: 
         Mano Entertainment
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Set in Korea’s not-so-distant past, Man-ho (Lee) quietly runs a laundry service in the South, where he has been living as a resident North Korean spy for 14 years. Nightly he decodes and transmits messages from the North through a variety of creative methods. Man-ho’s daughter, Sun-bok (Kim) is in fourth grade. Much to Man-ho’s surprise, Sun-bok becomes a passionate anti-communist at school, delivering speeches to fellow students, creating posters, and removing any North Korean propaganda she finds in her neighborhood. She is even given a ‘Crime Prevention Education Award’ by local authorities. But one day Man-ho is exposed as a spy and carried off in handcuffs. Will this father and daughter be able to resolve their ideological conflicts with love?

 

Han Seung-ryong’s debut feature <Off Road> (2007) was screened at the Jeonju International Film Festival and picked up a prize at Korea’s Grand Bell Awards. He has worked on numerous films as an editor, including director E J-yong’s <Untold Scandal>.