Inside Men (film)

Inside Men
Theatrical release poster
Hangul	내부자들
Hanja	内部者들
Revised Romanization	Naebujadeul
McCune–Reischauer	Naebujadŭl
Directed by	Woo Min-ho
Written by	Woo Min-ho
Based on	The Insiders by Yoon Tae-ho
Produced by	Lee Min-su
Starring	Lee Byung-hun Cho Seung-woo Baek Yoon-sik
Cinematography	Go Nak-seon
Edited by	Kim Sang-bum Kim Jae-bum
Distributed by	Showbox
Release date	November 19, 2015 (2015-11-19)
Running time	130 minutes 180 minutes (director's cut)
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	US$63 million[1]

Inside Men (Korean: 내부자들; Hanja: 内部者들; RR: Naebujadeul) is a 2015 South Korean political action thriller film written and directed by Woo Min-ho based on Yoon Tae-ho's webtoon The Insiders that dissects the corruption within Korean society.^[2] Starring Lee Byung-hun, Cho Seung-woo and Baek Yoon-sik, it began filming in July 2014 and was released in theaters on November 19, 2015.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]}

Inside Men and the director's cut Inside Men: The Original have sold a total of 9.1 million admissions at the box office, thus becoming the top grossing R-rated movie of all-time at the South Korean box office.^{[14][15][16][17][18]}

Lee Kang-hee, an editor at an influential conservative newspaper, raises congressman Jang Pil-woo to the position of leading presidential candidate using the power of the press; behind this is his secret deal with the paper's biggest sponsor, Mirae motors.

Ahn Sang-goo, a political henchman who supported Lee and Jang, gets caught pocketing the record of the sponsor's slush fund, resulting in a dismembered hand. Woo Jang-hoon, an ambitious prosecutor, starts to investigate the relationship between Jang and the sponsor, believing that it's his only chance to make it to the top. While getting down to the brass tacks of the case, Woo meets Ahn, who has been methodically planning his revenge. The war between the one blinded with power, the one hell-bent on vengeance, and the one eager for success begins, as prosecutor Woo becomes the "inside men" to expose the dark scheme of Lee and Jang to the people.^[19]

On its first four days at the South Korean box office, the film grossed ₩13.2 billion.^[20] Inside Men drew more than 2 million viewers in just six days, a record for an R-rated film; it has also set the record for the most-viewed R-rated movie in a single day—489,503 viewers.^[21]

• Inside Men at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
• Inside Men at IMDb
• Inside Men at HanCinema