IU, Kang Dong Won and Song Kang Ho star in first poster of Koreeda Hirokazu’s Korean debut feature film Broker

Japanese director Koreeda Hirokazu’s much-awaited South Korean film Broker, starring IU, Song Kang Ho, and Kang Dong Won, has finally released a teaser poster. The poster reveals a June 2022 release date in Japan.

Broker is the first-ever Korean feature film by Japanese director Koreeda Hirokazu, who won the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for the acclaimed Japanese film Shoplifters, features a star-studded cast of Song Kang Ho, Bae Doona, Kang Dong Won, Lee Joo Young. and the popular singer-actor IU. The highly anticipated film tells the story of baby boxes, which are set up for people who are no longer able to provide for their babies to anonymously give them up.

Parasite star Song Kang Ho plays broker Sang Hyun who finds parents to adopt the abandoned babies and makes special deals with them. Kang Dong Won plays Sang Hyun’s business partner Dong Soo. IU plays a mother named So Young who returns to the baby box for her child. Koreeda wrote and directed the film and also worked with CJ ENM, the entertainment unit of South Korean conglomerate CJ Group, which financed and produced the project. The new poster reads, “Baby box, the place where our special deal began,” and captures the conflicting moments of Sang Hyun, Dong Soo and So Young in the car as they set off on a mission to find welcoming adoptive parents.

While self-proclaimed well-intentioned “Broker” partners Sang Hyun and Dong Soo look excited seated in the front, the baby’s mom So Young seems like having a hard time with her situation, as she stares out of the window looking all weary. Although she initially left her child in the baby box, So Young raises questions when she returns to her child without an explanation. Bae Doona and Lee Joo Young reportedly play detective Soo Jin and detective Lee who persistently follow the brokers’ journey to chase them down.

The upcoming feature is Song Kang Ho and Kang Dong Won’s reunion project as the two actors reunited for the first time in 12 years since 2010 film Secret Reunion. Song Kang Ho and Bae Doona have earlier co-starred in films such as 2002's Sympathy for Mr Vengeance and The Host (2006).

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