The Man Standing Next

Seoul, winter 1979. Snow falls on an empty interrogation room, a tape recorder blinking red. A disgraced intelligence chief boards a night flight with secrets coiled like wire in his coat. Feels like a Park Chan-kyong edit of *All the President’s Men*—cold, precise, no heroes left.

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Woo Min-ho directed The Man Standing Next in 2020. See Woo Min-ho's full filmography, where to start with Woo Min-ho, or where to go after you've seen everything by Woo Min-ho.

The Man Standing Next was released in 2020 (KO original-language production), with a runtime of 114 minutes.