Jung_E Movie Details:
| Hangul | 정이 |
| Revised Romanization | Jeong |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Genre | Sci-Fi |
| Release date | January 20, 2023 |
| Running time | 1hr 39min |
| Starring | Kang Soo-Yeon Kim Hyun-Joo Ryu Kyung-soo |
| Directed by | Yeon Sang-ho |
| Written by | Yeon Sang-ho |
| Produced by | Byun Seung-min |
| Edited by | Yang Jin-mo |
| Music by | Kim Dong-wook |
| Production Company | Climax Studio Dexter Studio |
| Distributor | Netflix |
Jung_E Movie Cast & Characters:
- Kang Soo-yeon as Yun Seo-hyun
- Park So-yi as young Yun Seo-hyun
- The team leader at Kronoid Laboratory, the research institute responsible for JUNG_E’s clones and combat power tests. She is the daughter of Captain Yun Jung-yi, who entered a coma as a child.
- Kim Hyun-joo as Yun Jung-yi/JUNG_E
- Captain Yun Jung-yi was a leader of the Allied Forces and was once considered a war hero. During her last mission, she is critically injured and ends up in a coma. Decades later in 2194, her brain data is cloned and used to develop an advanced combat AI, codenamed JUNG_E.
- Ryu Kyung-soo as Kim Sang-Hoon
- He is the director of Kronoid Laboratory and is driven to succeed in the brain cloning experiment. He is a robot created by the chairman of Kronoid Laboratory that believes himself to be human.
- Special appearance
- Lee Dong-hee is the chairman of Kronoid Laboratory
- Uhm Ji-won as Lee Se-yeon
Storyline:
Set in the 22nd century, climate change has caused the planet to become uninhabitable and humans live within a man-made shelter. A war takes place within the shelter. Jung Yi is the elite leader of the allied forces. She becomes the subject of a brain cloning experiment. The cloning experiment is a potential key to winning the war.
Jung_E Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
| Budget | KRW20 billion ($16.3 million) |
About Jung_E Movie:
Kim Hyun-joo and Ryu Kyung-soo also appeared in director Yeon Sang-ho’s previous work, 2021 Netflix series Hellbound.
Filming began in November 2021 and concluded in January 2022.
A day later after its release, Jung_E took the first place globally on Netflix’s film category. Subsequently it debuted at the first place in Netflix’s global Top 10 movie (non-English) category for the week of January 16 to 22, entering the Top 10 list in a total of 80 countries and recording 19 million hours viewed.
