Young Gun in the Time

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Movie: Young Gun in the Time
Revised romanization: Younggun Tamjungsamooso
Hangul: 영건 탐정사무소
Director: Oh Young-Doo
Writer: Oh Young-Doo
Producer: Nonoka Iwasaki, Jang Yoon-Jung
Cinematographer: Kim Yoon-Chang
World Premiere: February, 2012 (Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival)
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Runtime: 95 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Time Travel
Distributor: Indiestory
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea, Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Detective Young-Gun (Hong Seo-Baek) specializes in frivolous cases, due to his money woes. One day, a beautiful woman named Song-Hyun (Choi Song-Hyun) comes to his office and asks Young-Gun to kill a man, but he refuses citing his profession's moral honor code. Nevertheless, Young-Gun is strongly attracted to the beautiful woman and follows her when she leaves his office.

Young-Gun then witnesses Song-Hyun getting killed in a car accident. He is traumatized over her death and decides to investigate her background.

Surprisingly, a woman, who looks exactly looks Song-Hyun, appears in front of Young-Gun. Young-Gun knows that the woman is Song-Hyun from 3 days in the future. Song-Hyun then asks Young-Gun to save her life and he accepts her request. Young-Gun has only 3 days to save her, but first he has to get a time machine.

Notes

Filming began July 10, 2011. Shooting takes place in Anguk-dong, Seoul.
Budget is slight more than 30,000,000 Won (roughly $30,000 USD). Financing came from the monetary award provided by the 2011 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival to Oh Young-Doo & Japanese director Kaizo Hayashi who invested his own personal funds (Kaizo Hayashi was a judge at the 2011 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival).
"Young Gun in the Time" was selected as one of the five projects in the "Project Spotlight: Japan" section for NAFF (Network of Asian Fantastic Films) - which runs concurrently with the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival.
Movie is expected to premiere at the 2012 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival.