Marine Boy
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[edit] Profile
- Movie: Marine Boy
- Hangul: 마린보이
- Director: Jong-seok Yun
- Writer:
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- Release Date: February 5, 2009
- Runtime: 118 min.
- Studio: REALies
- Distributor: CJ Entertainment
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
[edit] Plot
"Marine Boy" tells the story of a former swimming athlete (played by Kim Kang-woo) desperately in debt and because of this, becomes employed as a "body packing" drug mule by a heartless drug lord (played by Jae-hyeon Jo). After swallowing a 10-meter-long drug package, "marine boy" must swim across waters between Korea and Japan. Among the many things that beckon death, an alluring beauty (played by Si-yeon Park) tries to seduce him.
[edit] Notes
- The movie "Marine Boy" has no relations with Korean Olympic swimmer Tae-han Park, who is also known as Marine Boy.
- The movie's title is derived from a slang word for underwater drug runners.
- Actor Kang-woo Kim ate mostly chicken breast meat for 5 months to get in shape for the film.
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