Kdrama 2023
Death’s Game (Kdrama Review & Summary)
Death’s Game poster
- Genre: Fantasy, Thriller, Drama
- Release Date: 15 December 2023
- Origin: South Korea
- Kdrama: 8 Episodes (4 episodes part 1 & 4 for part 2)
Cast
- Seo In Guk as Choi Yi Jae
- Park So Dam as Death
- Nam Kyung Eup as Chairman Nam
- Go Youn Jung as Lee Ji Soo
- Kim Mi Kyung – [Yi Jae’s mother]
- Choi Si Won as Park Jin Tae [Second son of Taekang Group, Yi Jae’s 1st reincarnation]
- Sung Hoon as Song Jae Seop [Yi Jae’s 2nd reincarnation]
- Kim Kang Hoon as Kwon Hyuk Soo [Yi Jae’s 3rd reincarnation]
- Jang Seung Jo as Lee Joo Hoon [Yi Jae’s 4th reincarnation]
- Lee Jae Wook as Cho Tae Sang [Yi Jae’s 5th reincarnation]
- Lee Do Hyun as Jang Geon Woo [Yi Jae’s 7th reincarnation]
- Kim Jae Wook as Jung Gyu Chul [Yi Jae’s 8th reincarnation]
- Oh Jung Se as Ahn Ji Hyung [Yi Jae’s 9th reincarnation]
- Choi woo Jin as Woo Ji Hoon [Detective]
Episode 1
Whoa! This drama is so good. Very watchable with amazing cast.
Choi Yi Jae graduated from a top university and yet he could not find a decent job. However, he had to pay his student loans and other debts so he had to take any job. He holds several part time jobs.
This has been going on for seven years.
But then something happened that changed his life almost overnight.
Finally, he was on his way to a job interview but he witness a man dying after being struck by a car.
He reckoned this incident was the start of succession of misfortune.
Though the interview went well, he received news thay all of his hard-earned savings that he invested in bitcoin were gone. The police could not help because that was investment that he peronally entered into.
Then when he went to see his girlfriend, he saw her coming home from what seemed to be like a date. She denied it but he would not listen.
Then he went home only to find out that he had been locked out and his propertiess including his computer, and other applicances had been left out in the rain. Apparently he had not pay for his rent. He was absolutely gutted.
Then the final straw was not getting the job.
He though there was nothing left for him so he jumped off the building.
He later became aware of a figure who was mighty pissed.
She told him that he should have not come because death comes to him, that is the natural order of things.
Human’s no longer value life.
She told him that she will punish him with twelve death. If he can prevent a death, he would not go to hell.
She shoots him right in the forehead and when he came to he was reincarnated into a chaebol on his own private plane.
Second reincarnation was a thrill seeker, a popular celbrity who is inot extreme sport. He jumped off the plane without a parachute. He went to eart in a splat, dead.
Episode 2
Third reincarnation is a 17 year old boy who was bullied at school.
Fourth reincarnation was a gan member who stole 10 million from his boss.
Episode 3
Fifth reincarnation was an aspiring 18 year-old kickboxer who went to prison for 2M in place of guy who committed a hit and run.
He later got stabbed by the father of the hit and run victim when he was released from juvenile detention. But the one who killed him was the guy he met in prison.
The sixth reincarnation was a baby.
Cho Tae Sang was so upset to have been reincarnated as a baby because he can’t get to the money he hid in a locker by the station.
Episode 4
The poor baby was murdered by his own parents.
The next reincarnation was Jang Geon Woo who was a rising model. Geon Woo helped out in his brother’s coffee shop when he met Li Jisoo, Choi Yi Jae’s girlfriend.
Part Two