The Old Woman with the Knife

The Old Woman with the Knife (파과, 2025) is a South Korean action thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Min Kyu-dong and led by Lee Hye-young in a career-defining turn. Running 125 minutes.

Hornclaw is an aging contract killer — methodical, unsentimentally professional, well past expecting surprises. Then Bullfight shows up. He's younger, reckless, and determined to become her partner. He also claims he remembers her from his childhood, names her as the one person who ever treated him with decency. She has no memory of him at all. That gap — his certainty against her blank — is where the film puts all its weight.

Lee Hye-young plays Hornclaw without softening anything: tired, precise, and genuinely dangerous. The film earns its action through character rather than choreography alone, and the final confrontation between the two lands because you've spent two hours not knowing exactly who to believe. Stream The Old Woman with the Knife (2025) online on iFILM.