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| Hangul | 에이치 |
| RR | Eichi |
| MR | Eich‘i |
| Directed by | Lee Jong-Hyuk |
| Produced by | Ryu Jin-ok |
| Written by | Lee Jong-hyeok |
| Starring | Ji Jin-hee Jo Seung-woo Yeom Jeong-ah |
| Music by | Jo Seong-woo |
| Cinematography | Peter Gray |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | December 27, 2002 |
| Running time | 106 min. |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
H is a 2002 South Korean thriller. It was written and directed by Lee Jong-hyuk, and stars Ji Jin-hee, Jo Seung-woo and Yeom Jeong-ah. The story follows a serial killer who preyed on pregnant women has been behind bars for 10 months when a copycat killer becomes active. Detectives meet with the imprisoned killer and search for clues in an effort to head off the copy cat killer before he finishes.
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Twenty-two year-old serial killer Shin Hyun targeted pregnant women and turned himself in after committing several grisly murders. Ten months later a copycat killer became active, and detectives Kang and Kim are put on the case.
They track down the killer by following clues from the first two victims: A pregnant schoolgirl whose fetus the killer removed, and a single mother strangled from behind on a bus. They had tried to pump Shin for information, but without success. They stake out the killer's home, but when the killer comes home, he notices the cops and runs. Kang follows him into a nightclub, where the killer slices off a lesbian's ear and then slits her throat, just like Shin's third victim. Kang fires four rounds into his chest; this puts him in a coma. Despite this, the murders still continue. The police capture the next suspect, but the murders keep occurring.
In the end, it is revealed that Shin's mother had tried to abort him, but he survived. The psychologist Dr. Chu had used post-hypnotic suggestion on the other two killers to make them commit copycat murders. Kang then kills Chu (imitating Shin's murder of an abortion doctor), but Kang is triggered by a CD mailed to him. Kang kills his own mother, who was a prostitute.
In the course of the movie, Shin is executed and his final words are "I killed my mother." This explains the sixth and last unidentified victim, whom he brought in a bag to the police station when he confessed. Kang is about to commit suicide when Kim shows up and kills him instead.
Just before the ending credits, the letter "H" appears and expands into the word "hypnosis", and its definition.
H was nominated for the 2004 International Fantasy Film Award for best film.[1]
The film did not receive a good review from asianfilmreviews.com only scoring 4.4 out of 10.0. Whilst the reviewer was intrigued by the premise the story was considered "bland and uninteresting and the ending is too unbelievable". The camerawork was criticized and the acting was "mediocre" with editing was poor. [2]
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