• Director(s)

    Jae-Hoon Choi

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Action, Crime, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    95m

  • Cast

    Jang Hyuk, Seo-young Lee, Bang Eun-Jung

Film

The Killer

strong bloody violence, language, sexual threat, drug misuse

THE KILLER is a South Korean action crime thriller in which a retired assassin must protect a teenage girl from dangerous criminals.…

THE KILLER is a South Korean action crime thriller in which a retired assassin must protect a teenage girl from dangerous criminals.

violence
A man tortures a screaming female captive for information by stabbing her thigh and twisting the blade; the woman’s body is subsequently found with blood pooling from multiple stab wounds on her thighs. People are shot, stabbed, or struck with axes during stylised crunchy fight scenes, creating spurts of blood and strong bloody aftermath detail. In order to intimidate his enemies, a man smashes glass bottles over an unconscious henchman’s head and then cuts the length of his arm with a knife.
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’); milder terms include ‘whore’, ‘bitch’, ‘ass’, ‘asshole’, ‘son of a bitch’, ‘bastard’ and ‘shit’, in addition to use of the ‘middle finger’ gesture.
drugs
A villain is briefly shown snorting drugs.
sexual violence and sexual threat
The film’s villains are a gang of human traffickers who kidnap teenage girls and force them into sex work. In one scene a man follows the sound of a teenager’s screams and finds an attacker wearing only underwear straddling the girl on a bed, while a third man films the attack; he immediately intervenes and saves the girl. Rape is not depicted on screen.
additional issues
There are infrequent undetailed suicide references, including a flashback sequence in which a suicidal young woman hires an assassin to kill her. Infrequent moderate sex references include a non-graphic reference to watching porn.

  • Director(s)

    Jae-Hoon Choi

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Action, Crime, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    95m

  • Cast

    Jang Hyuk, Seo-young Lee, Bang Eun-Jung

strong bloody violence, language, sexual threat, drug misuse
Classified Date:
07/03/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Trinity Filmed Entertainment
violence
A man tortures a screaming female captive for information by stabbing her thigh and twisting the blade; the woman’s body is subsequently found with blood pooling from multiple stab wounds on her thighs. People are shot, stabbed, or struck with axes during stylised crunchy fight scenes, creating spurts of blood and strong bloody aftermath detail. In order to intimidate his enemies, a man smashes glass bottles over an unconscious henchman’s head and then cuts the length of his arm with a knife.
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’); milder terms include ‘whore’, ‘bitch’, ‘ass’, ‘asshole’, ‘son of a bitch’, ‘bastard’ and ‘shit’, in addition to use of the ‘middle finger’ gesture.
drugs
A villain is briefly shown snorting drugs.
sexual violence and sexual threat
The film’s villains are a gang of human traffickers who kidnap teenage girls and force them into sex work. In one scene a man follows the sound of a teenager’s screams and finds an attacker wearing only underwear straddling the girl on a bed, while a third man films the attack; he immediately intervenes and saves the girl. Rape is not depicted on screen.
additional issues
There are infrequent undetailed suicide references, including a flashback sequence in which a suicidal young woman hires an assassin to kill her. Infrequent moderate sex references include a non-graphic reference to watching porn.

  • Classified date

    07/03/2023

  • Language

    Korean