Hindsight

Hindsight (, lit. Blue Salt) is a 2011 South Korean action drama film by Lee Hyun-seung, his first after a ten-year hiatus. The film is about a hitwoman who struggles with her feelings for the underworld boss who is her target. The film deals with issues of age difference, and the Korean underworld. It stars Song Kang-ho and Shin Se-kyung, and premiered at the 16th Busan International Film Festival. The film received a total of 763,776 admissions nationwide. Plot Busan, South Korea, the present day. Legendary retired gangster Yoon Doo-hun (Song Kang-ho) dreams of opening a restaurant, and enrolls in a cooking class, where he gets to know Jo Se-bin (Shin Se-kyung). Doo-hun then hears that his former boss, Man-gil, has died after being hit by a car; the gang's members need to find Man-gil's will to see whom he nominated as his successor, though most of them expect it is Doo-hun. Meanwhile, Se-bin's roommate Lee Eun-jung (Esom) has become indebted to some Haeundae moneylenders, who force Se-bin, in return, to spy on Doo-hun. After Eun-jung steals a suitcase containing cocaine from the moneylenders, Se-bin is ordered to kill Doo-hun but can't bring herself to do it. Instead, Eun-jung tries to run him over with a car and subsequently disappears. Doo-hun survives and takes over as head of his old gang, intent on discovering who killed Man-gil. Among various problems, he has to contend with Baek Kyung-min (Lee Jong-hyuk), an ambitious young member of the gang, and his continuing relationship with Se-bin, who is under pressure from assassination agency head Madame Kang (Youn Yuh-jung) to kill him. Cast Song Kang-ho ... Yoon Doo-hun - a retired gangster Shin Se-kyung ... Jo Se-bin - a young national shooting athlete-turned-assassin Chun Jung-myung ... Ae-gu - Doo-hun's right-hand man Lee Jong-hyuk ... Baek Kyung-min - Doo-hun's friend and rival Kim Min-jun ... K - another assassin hired to kill Doo-hun Youn Yuh-jung ... Madame Kang Lee Geung-young ... Choi Go-mun Kim Roi-ha ... Kim Gi-chul Oh Dal-su ... Teacher Yook Esom ... Lee Eun-jung - Se-bin's best friend and cooking partner Jang Young-nam ... culinary school instructor Kim Jong-gu ... gang boss Du Kim Kang-woo ... gang boss Kim Jo Young-jin ... gang boss Ki Jo Deok-je ... gang boss Ri Choi Deok-moon ... Haeundae gang boss Yang Ki-won ... Haeundae gang deputy Lee Jong-pil ... Yong-soo Jin Yang-hye ... news announcer