The President’s Last Bang DVD – Sang-geon Jo, Jae-gu Lee

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The President s Last Bang depicts the brutal reality and ensuing chaos of a political coup with unapologetic frankness unexpected humour and unrelieved intensity Imaginatively recreating the 1979 assassination of South Korean President Park Chung-hee writer-director Im sang-soo dares to make complex realistically neurotic characters out of the most polarizing figures in modern Korean political history Through outwardly cynical Korean CIA chief Kim secretly nurtures a personal disgust with his dissolute president s embarrassing appetites and impatience with this dissent-mired nation During yet another banquet with President Park the chief executive s corrupt top advisors and two wary party girls Kim impulsively improvises a conspiracy that will change the course of the world politics When Kim and his thuggish enforcer Ju make their move they initiate a bloodbath that threatens to drown both victim and assassin

Darkly satirical comedy, as director Im Sang Soo revisits South Korea’s murky past, in this film about the 1979 assassination of President Park Chung Hee (Jae-ho Song). Summoned to dine with his employer, cynical Korean CIA chief Kim Jae Kyu (Yun-shik Baek) arrives to find the president accompanied by his corrupt advisers and party sycophants. After years of being progressively sickened by Park’s immoral lifestyle and corrupt administration, not to mention having just had a medical check-up from hell, Kim decides to do something about it, and with the aid of his trusty but brutal henchman Ju (Han Suk kyu), takes matters, and Park’s life, into his own hands.

Though outwardly cynical Korean CIA chief Kim secretly nurtures a personal disgust with his dissolute president’s embarrassing appetites and impatience with his dissent-mired nation. During yet another banquet with President Park the chief executive’s corrupt top advisors and two wary party girls Kim impulsively improvises a conspiracy that will change the course of world politics. When Kim and his thuggish enforcer Ju (Han Suk-kyu Tell Me Something) make their move they initiate a bloodbath that threatens to drown both victim and assassin.