MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission

Here's a film that tries to do a lot with dictionaries. Set in the 1940s, an uneducated thief and a patriotic intellectual secretly join forces to create a Korean dictionary during the Japanese occupation. It probably made a lot more sense if you speak Korean.

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Eom Yu-na directed MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission in 2019. See Eom Yu-na's full filmography, where to start with Eom Yu-na, or where to go after you've seen everything by Eom Yu-na.

MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission was released in 2019 (KO original-language production), with a runtime of 135 minutes.