Extreme Job

Extreme Job Movie Details:

Extreme Job Movie Cast & Characters:

• Ryu Seung-ryong as Squad Chief Go, A determined but poorly performing cop. He is a dedicated worker who invests his retirement fund into the fried chicken business.
• Lee Hanee as Detective Jang, The team’s not-always-efficient problem solver. Nicknamed Jang-Bak (from Ong Bak) due to having been a kickboxing (Muay Thai) champion previously.
• Jin Seon-kyu as Detective Ma, A financially unreliable cop with gambling tendencies.
• Lee Dong-hwi as Detective Young-ho, The team’s determined goal-setter and the most serious member of the team.
• Gong Myung as Detective Jae-hoon, The enthusiastic, youngest team member and cheerleader. He is extremely gullible and childish.
• Shin Ha-kyun as Lee Moo-bae
• Oh Jung-se as Ted Chang
• Han Joon-woo as Detective
• Kim Eui-sung as Police superintendent
• Song Young-kyu as Detective Squad Chief Choi
• Lee Joong-ok as Hwan-dong
• Jung Jae-kwang as Gungpyeong Port uniformed police
• Heo Joon-suk as General manager Jung
• Kim Ji-young as Squad Chief Go’s wife
• Kim Jong-soo as Chicken restaurant owner
• Yang Hyun-min as Hong Sang-pil
• Shin Shin-ae 3rd floor aunt (special appearance)

Storyline:

A team of narcotics detectives goes undercover in a fried chicken joint to stake out an organized crime gang. But things take an unexpected turn when the detectives’ chicken recipe suddenly transforms the rundown restaurant into the hottest eatery in town.

About Extreme Job Movie:

Extreme Job (극한직업) is a South Korean action crime comedy film directed by Lee Byeong-heon and written Bae Se-young. The film stars Ryu Seung-ryong, Lee Hanee, Jin Seon-kyu, Lee Dong-hwi and Gong Myung.

According to reports Ryu Seung-ryon lost as much as 12 kilograms for the movie.

Extreme Job was released on January 23, 2019. The film has become a major box office success in South Korea, grossing ₩91.5 billion (US$81.6 million) on a production budget of ₩6.5 billion (US$5.8 million) and surpassing 10 million ticket sales in just 15 days.

As of July 2024, Extreme Job is one of the highest-grossing films and the second most viewed film in South Korean film history.

Extreme Job and the Chinese film Lobster Cop (龍蝦刑警, released in June 2018) was developed under the same project called the ‘Korean-Chinese story co-development project’ which was a cooperation between Chinese and Korean companies, with the same script localized differently in their respective countries.

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