Hindsight

Hindsight (푸른소금, 2011) — watch online on iFILM. A South Korean crime drama with a romantic edge, directed by Lee Hyun-seung and starring Son Kang-ho as a retired mob boss who has quietly walked away from everything.

He runs a small restaurant now, takes cooking classes, keeps to himself. At one of those classes he meets a young woman and something that looks like a connection starts to form. What he does not know: she is a hired assassin, and he is the mark. Director Lee plays the setup as a slow study in competing intentions rather than a genre exercise.

Son Kang-ho — known internationally for Parasite and Memories of Murder — brings a disarming domesticity to the role. A dangerous man who has genuinely gone soft, which makes the situation stranger, not safer. Stream Hindsight (2011) online on iFILM.