Countdown is a 2011 caper film starring two of Korea's top actors Jeon Do-yeon

Jeon Do-yeon

Jeon Do-yeon is a highly-acclaimed South Korean actress who has won many awards including best actress at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival...

 and Jung Jae-young

Jeong Jae-yeong

- Career :Jeong starred in the film noir No Blood No Tears , and was a supporting actor in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance . Later he won Best Supporting Actor at the Blue Dragon Film Awards for his role in the box office hit Silmido ....

. Countdown is an highly assured debut feature by Huh Jong-ho that takes the audience through an entertaining journey through the underbelly of Korea. It premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival

2011 Toronto International Film Festival

The 36th annual Toronto International Film Festival, was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 8 and September 18, 2011.Buenos Aires, Argentina was selected to be showcased for the 2011 City to City programme. The opening film was From the Sky Down, a documentary film about the band...

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Plot

Tae Gun-ho (Jung) is the best collection agent in his firm, admired by his colleagues and dreaded by those he visits. He’s known for gathering his debts by any means necessary, and keeps a cattle prod handy while on the job. Following a series of unexpected fainting spells, Tae is told by a doctor that he has liver cancer, and would need a transplant to have any chance of surviving beyond three months. And so he puts his professional skills to work, setting out to collect a different sort of debt by tracking down the recipients of organs donated by his late son. First among his sources for a liver is Cha Ha-yeon (Jeon), a beguiling fraudster with a long list of enemies.

Locating Cha turns out to be easy, since she’s about to be released from prison. The deal she proposes, however, which includes getting even with the sleazy crime boss who set her up, jeopardizes Tae’s future. He struggles desperately to keep Cha, and her liver, safe until the transplant — even while Cha has other plans.

Cast

• Jeon Do-yeon
  Jeon Do-yeon
  Jeon Do-yeon is a highly-acclaimed South Korean actress who has won many awards including best actress at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   as Cha Ha-yeon
• Jung Jae-young
  Jeong Jae-yeong
  - Career :Jeong starred in the film noir No Blood No Tears , and was a supporting actor in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance . Later he won Best Supporting Actor at the Blue Dragon Film Awards for his role in the box office hit Silmido ....
  
   as Tae Gun-ho
• Min
  Min (artist)
  Lee Min Young , also known as Min, is a South Korean idol singer, actress, model, MC and dancer. She is the lead vocalist and main dancer of the Korean girl group miss A which is under AQ Entertainment, a JYP Entertainment sub-label. Before debuting with miss A, Min had some notable recognition in...
  
  as Jang Hyeon-ji