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Confidential Assignment (Korean: 공조; Hanja: 共助; RR: Gongjo; lit. Cooperation) is a 2017 South Korean action comedy film directed by Kim Sung-hoon. It stars Hyun Bin, Yoo Hae-jin and Kim Joo-hyuk.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] In the film, a North Korean officer and a Seoul detective team up to track down a dangerous fugitive, who is running a gang of counterfeiters.

Confidential Assignment
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Hangul	공조
Hanja	共助
Revised Romanization	Gongjo
McCune–Reischauer	Kongcho
Directed by	Kim Sung-hoon
Written by	Yoon Hyun-ho
Produced by	Yoon Je-kyoon
Starring	Hyun Bin Yoo Hae-jin Kim Joo-hyuk
Cinematography	Lee Sung-jae
Edited by	Lee Jin
Music by	Hwang Sang-joon
Production company	JK Film
Distributed by	CJ Entertainment
Release date	January 18, 2017 (2017-01-18)
Running time	125 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Budget	US$8.52 million[1]
Box office	US$57 million[2]

Plot

Im Cheol-ryung, an officer of a special investigation team in North Korea, barges at a warehouse that prints counterfeit money, where he learns that his superior Cha Ki-seong and his own team are there to steal the master plates to print the counterfeit money. A shootout ensues where Cheol-ryung's wife Hwa-ryung and his team are killed, while Cheol-ryung is gravely injured. Meanwhile, the North Korean officials learn that Cha Ki-seong has fled to South Korea, where Cheol-ryung is ordered to capture Ki-seong and retrieve the stolen master plates, and is given only three days to complete his mission.

However, the South Korean officials suspects whether Ki-seong is really a killer, where they assign Detective Kang Jin-tae from Seoul to watch over Cheol-ryung tightly as they suspect him to kill Ki-seong for vengeance. Jin-tae receives Cheol-ryung from the airport, where they head for Myeong-Dong to check on one of Ki-seong's men Park Myung-ho, but Cheol-ryong escapes after learning about Jin-tae's mission. Cheol-ryung arrives at Myeong-Dong to Jongro where Jin-tae also reaches there and interrogates Park, but the latter escapes. After the orders from his superior, Jin-tae takes Cheol-ryung to his home to spy on him. Having guessed the latter's plan, Cheol-ryung removes the SIM card which Jin-tae had inserted in his phone to track his location anytime.

The duo learns about the location where Park was supplying drugs and a fight ensues where Cheol-ryung takes one of the men's phone and gives it to Jin-tae. Cheol-ryung learns about Park's location after secretly bugging Jin-tae's phone. The duo heads to the restaurant where they find that Park is conversing with one of Ki-seong's comrades (who was present at the warehouse). The comrade learns that Park plans to settle in South Korea, where he kills him under Ki-seong's orders. Cheol-ryung arrives and warns Ki-seong of his impending death, where he fights the comrade, who escapes. After checking Park's belongings, the officials learn about Cheol-ryung's mission. Meanwhile, Jin-tae learns about Cheol-ryung's past and decide to help him.

They reach the place where Ki-seong has arranged a deal to sell the plates, but Ki-seong kills the buyer where Cheol-ryung arrives and kills the henchmen where he is about Ki-seong, but Jin-tae stops him which gives time for Ki-seong to escape. Cheol-ryung takes the master plates and leaves. However, Ki-seong kidnaps Jin-tae's family and demands the plates. A frightened Jin-tae tells Cheol-ryung, where he takes the plates and heads to the location. Jin-tae and Cheol-ryung arrives and gives the plates to Ki-seong, who leaves Jin-tae's family where Jin-tae takes his family to a safe place. A battle ensues where Cheol-ryung and Jin-tae manages to kill Ki-seong. One year later, Cheol-ryung and Jin-tae receive their next mission.

Cast

• Hyun Bin as Im Cheol-ryung
• Yoo Hae-jin as Kang Jin-tae
• Kim Joo-hyuk as Cha Ki-seong
• Jang Young-nam as Park So-yeon
• Im Yoon-ah as Park Min-young
• Lee Dong-hwi as Park Myung-ho
• Oh Eui-shik as Lee Dae-pal
• Kong Jung-hwan as Sung-kang
• Lee Hae-young as Chief Pyo
• Park Min-ha as Kang Yeon-ah
• Jun Gook-hwan as Won Hyung-sool
• Um Hyo-sup as Chairman Yoon
• Lee Yi-kyung as Lee Dong-hoon
• Shin Hyun-bin as Hwa-ryung
• Park Jin-woo as Jang Chil-bok
• Park Hyung-soo as National Intelligence Service executive
• Kim Jun-han as NIS agent
• Eum Moon-suk as Troops #4

Reception

Confidential Assignment opened in second place at the box office on January 18. It rose to first place in its second week selling an accumulative 4 million tickets by January 30 and surpassed the 5 million mark two days later.[10][11][12][13]

The movie became the most viewed Korean movie during the first half of 2017 by attracting 7.8 million audience locally. However, this record was surpassed in August by A Taxi Driver.[14]

International

Confidential Assignment was sold to 42 territories, including the U.S. and several countries in Asia.[15][16]

• In US on January 27, 2017
• In Canada on February 3
• In Australia and New Zealand on February 9
• In Hong Kong and Macao on February 16
• In Taiwan on February 17
• In Vietnam on March 3
• In Thailand on April 13
• In India on November 25

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref.
2017	53rd Baeksang Arts Awards	Best New Actress	Im Yoon-ah	Nominated	[17]
		Most Popular Actress		Won
	Korean Film Shining Star Awards	Newcomer Award: Best New Actress		Won	[18]
		Best Director	Kim Sung-hoon	Won
	Fantasia International Film Festival	Action! Award	Confidential Assignment	Won	[19]
	22nd Busan International Film Festival	Marie Claire Asia Star Awards: Rising Star Award	Im Yoon-ah	Won
	1st The Seoul Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Kim Joo-hyuk	Won	[20][21][22]
		Most Popular Actress	Im Yoon-ah	Won
		Best New Actress	Im Yoon-ah	Nominated
	54th Grand Bell Awards			Nominated	[23]
	38th Blue Dragon Film Awards			Nominated	[24]
		Best Film Editing	Confidential Assignment	Nominated
	1st Marianas International Film Festival in Saipan	Best Popular Asian Actress	Im Yoon-ah	Won	[25]
	6th Korea Top Star Awards	Popular Star Award	Hyun Bin	Won	[26]
2018	12th Asian Film Awards	Best Newcomer	Im Yoon-ah	Nominated	[27]
		AFA Next Generation Award		Won	[28]
	13th University Film Festival of Korea	Best Actress Award		Won	[29]

Sequel

Confidential Assignment 2: International, a sequel was announced on August 24, 2020.[30][31] Filming started on February 18, 2021[32][33] and was released on September 7, 2022.

References

External links

• Confidential Assignment at HanCinema
• Confidential Assignment at IMDb
• Confidential Assignment at the Korean Movie Database
• Confidential Assignment at Naver (in Korean)

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