Dark Figure of Crime (2018) on Netflix
Kim Hyeong-min, a widowed narcotics officer, meets a potential informant, Kang Tae-oh, who is arrested for killing his girlfriend. From prison Kang claims six more murders and offers a trade.
- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb6.7/102,867 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes80%
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Plot summary
A serial killer is caught for his seventh murder. A cop tries to solve the first six cases with the killer's help, but starts to suspect that he has ulterior motives. Based on a true story.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dark Figure of Crime (2018)
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- South Korea's Korea Media Rating Board gave Dark Figure of Crime a 19-and-over R-rating, so the film was re-edited and roughly two minutes of content cut to secure an age 15 rating.
- A victim's sister filed an injunction at the Seoul Central District Court on September 20, 2018, to ban the film's screening, saying the production crew never asked permission to make a movie about her brother's murder.
- Director Kim Tae-kyun spent five years writing his script after watching the Unanswered episode, and interviewed the detective who worked on the real case for material.
- The film was loosely based on the 869th episode of the South Korean TV programme Unanswered, about real murders in Busan where bodies were never found and investigations never happened.
- A second victim's relative, who had appeared in the Unanswered episode about his mother's murder, publicly supported the film's release, arguing it would draw attention to unreported crimes.
- On October 1, 2018, the victims' families withdrew their application to ban the screening, after a sincere apology from the production company and having weighed the film's aim of raising awareness of unreported crimes.
