#comedy #action #remake #Lee Gae-byok #Yoo Hae-jin #Lee Joon #Jo Yoon-hee #2016 #recorded in September, 2021

Hyung-wook is a contract killer with a 100% success rate. One day, he goes to a public bathhouse and slips on a soap bar. Waking up at a hospital, he can’t remember anything, even about himself. Jae-sung, a fledging actor, sees the accident at the same bathhouse, and pretends to be Hyung-wook by switching their locker keys. The two men adjust to their new lives. The twist is that Hyung-wook slowly regains his memories from his past, finds out that he is actually a killer.

Luck-Key was Yoo Hae-jin’s first film that he appeared as a leading role. In the beginning, he ran errands for the other actors which is common for new, young actors. They usually begin as an apprentice and he tried to copy what they did from a distance. Yoo began doing small roles in films and then he took supporting roles where he acquired a reputation as a scene stealer.

The Japanese original for Luck-Key, Key of Life was directed by Kenji Uchida. His theatrical feature film debut, A Stranger of Mine(2005), won four awards at the Cannes Film Festival, which I was very impressed with.