Citizen of a Kind Movie Details:
Hangul | 시민덕희 |
Literal meaning | Citizen Deokhee |
Revised Romanization | Simindeoghui |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Genre | Action, Comedy, Drama |
Release date | January 24, 2024 |
Running time | 1hr 54min |
Starring | Ra Mi-ran Gong Myung Yeom Hye-ran Park Byung-eun Jang Yoon-ju Lee Moo-saeng Ahn Eun-jin |
Directed by | Park Young-ju |
Produced by | Baek Chang-ju Jeong Jae-yeon |
Cinematography by | Lee Hyung-bin |
Edited by | Kim Sun-min |
Music by | Hwang Sang-jun |
Production Company | C-JeS Studios Page One Film |
Distributor | Showbox |
Citizen of a Kind Movie Cast & Characters:
- Ra Mi-ran as Kim Deok-hee, who lost tens of millions of won instantly due to a voice phishing message sent and set out to track down the person in charge.
- Gong Myung is Kwon Jae-min, a secret informant who informs Deok-hee about the voice phishing organization.
- Yeom Hye-ran is Bong-rim, Deok-hee’s co-worker and friend who is quick-witted and helps her both materially and spiritually. She is of Korean-Chinese descent.
- Park Byung-eun is Park Hyeong-sik, an intelligence team detective who is one step behind Deok-hee in both investigation and arrest.
- Jang Yoon-ju is Sook-ja, a character who shows an unstoppable drive just like Deok-hee, and strongly supports her in tracking down the voice phishing leader.
- Lee Moo-saeng as Oh Myung-hwan, the head of a Chinese voice phishing organization that controls hundreds of billions of dollars.
- Ahn Eun-jin is Ae-rim, Bong-rim ‘s younger sister who lives in Qingdao.
- Lee Joo-seung is Kyeong-cheol, a member of the voice phishing organization who is contemplating whether to escape or stay at the voice phishing company he applied for, thinking it was a high-paying part-time job.
- Sung Hyuk as Dae-woo, a member of the voice phishing organization.
- Kim Yool-ho as Detective Kim, an intelligence team detective who, along with Detective Park, tracks down voice phishing organizations.
- Seo Ji-hoo as Detective Shin, a junior detective on Detective Park’s intelligence team.
Storyline:
After losing her laundry store to a fire incident, a single mom Deok-hee receives a call from a bank offering a generous upfront loan so she takes it right away. But soon after, she finds out that she has become a victim of a voice phishing scheme. At the moment of despair, Jae-min, the phisher who tricked her, rings her phone once again to tip Deok-hee off about the criminal organization that locked him up and coerced him to make voice phishing calls from China. With that call, Deok-hee makes up her mind to investigate this case for herself and take a plane to China with her friends.
Citizen of a Kind Movie Budget & Box Office Collection:
Budget | N/A |
Worldwide Collection | US$12.5 million |
About Citizen of a Kind Movie:
Citizen of a Kind (Korean: 시민덕희) is a South Korean crime film directed by Park Young-ju, starring Ra Mi-ran, Gong Myung, Yeom Hye-ran, Park Byung-eun, Jang Yoon-ju, Lee Moo-saeng and Ahn Eun-jin. It is based on the true story of Kim Seong-ja, a laundromat owner in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, who caught the head of a voice phishing organization in 2016.
Principal photography began in September 2020 and ended in December 2020.
It was released on January 24, 2024.