Stars: Han Suk-Kyu, Choe Min-Sik, Kang-Ho Song, Derek Kim, Kim Yu-Jin

Director: Je-gyu Kang

Summary: South Korea Secret Service agent, Ryu, suspects Hee, a high profile sniper of the murder of an informant. Hee has been responsible for the murder of many government officials and now he's back... Korean dialogue.

In 1992, Hee was trained by a secret North Korean terrorist organisation to be a deadly assassin. Six years later, her extreme accuracy has taken the lives of many in South Korea, and Ryu--a special agent of OP, Korea's top secret intelligence agency--along with his cohort Lee, have devoted years to capturing slippery Hee to no avail. Ryu keeps his profession a secret from his pretty fiancee, Hyun--a recovering alcoholic who runs a tropical fish store. Meanwhile, Hee's organisation has hijacked a military truck transporting CTX, an explosive potent enough to destroy the entire city of Seoul, for potential use at a soccer match between North and South Korea, which is being staged as an attempt to heal the rocky relationship between the two countries. Ryu gets word of the potential destruction, but will he be able to find the mysterious Hee and stop it in time

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A dazzling action movie from South Korea, Shirifollows two South Korean government agents, Ryu and Lee, as they pursue a female super-assassin from North Korea. Meanwhile, an elite paramilitary squad from North Korea has stolen a shipment of CTX, an undetectable liquid explosive of enormous power, which they've planted all over the city of Seoul. As their investigations are successively foiled, Ryu and Lee begin to suspect that there is a mole within the ranks of the agency--and it may be one of them. Both hyperstylish and hyperrealistic, Shiririps along as a smooth fusion of Hong Kong and American action movies. Ryu's troubled romance with his alcoholic fiancée adds a striking emotional counterpoint to the blazing gunfights and high-speed chases; the ending is unexpectedly moving. It's not surprising that this film beat Titanic's box-office records in Korea. --Bret Fetzer

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen, 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	Korean
Region:	Region 0
Special Features:	Star And Director Filmographies, Scene Selection, Making Of Documentary, Original Video, Original Theatrical Trailer, Mark Wyatt Film Notes, Asia Extreme Trailer Reel
Subtitles:	English
Year:	2003
Release Date:	August 25, 2003
Runtime:	121 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	T V D 3430
Label:	Asia Extreme
Keywords:	Action, Subtitled, General, Wide, Screen, Adventure, Korean, Shiri
Genre:	Action/Adventure