South Korean Film 2017
Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds (South Korean Film Review & Summary)
Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds poster
- Genre: Fantasy, Afterlife, Grim Reapers
- Release Date: 2017
- Origin: South Korea
- Film: 2hrs 19 minutes
Cast
- Ha Jung-woo as Gang-rim
- Cha Tae-hyun as Kim Ja-hong
- Ju Ji-hoon as Haewonmak
- Kim Hyang-gi as Lee Deok-choon
- Kim Dong-wook as Kim Soo-hong
- Do Kyung-soo as Private Won Dong-yeon
- Jang Gwang as Jingwang, God of Violence Hell
- Jung Hae-kyun as Byeonseong, God of Murder Hell
- Oh Dal-su as ProsecutorIm Won-hee as Prosecutor
- Lee Joon-hyuk as First Lieutenant Park Moo-shin
- Kim Su-an as Taesan
- Ye Soo-jung as Ja-hong’s mother
- Jung Ji-hoon as Heo Hyun-dong
- Nam Il-woo as Heo Choon-sam
- Sung Yu-bin as young Ja-hong
- Goo Seung-hyun as young Soo-hong
- Kim Keu-rim as First Lieutenant Park’s wife
- Jung A-mi as Kang Rim Moo
- Yoo Jun-sang as Ja-hong’s Fellow firefighter
- Lee Jung-jae as Yeomra
- Kim Su-ro as Cat Girl’s Father
- Kim Ha-neul as Songje, God of Betrayal Hell
- Kim Hae-sook as Chogang, God of Indolence Hell
- Lee Geung-young as Ogwan, Great King of the Senses
- Kim Min-jong as Afterlife Messenger
- Ma Dong-seok as Seongju
We really enjoyed this film. It is very polished, with a good cast and a taut script, very fast-paced.
Good CGI, comparable to Hollywood, there are some humour but the subtitle let us down a bit as we got confused with what was happening but we managed to catch up in the end.
It was about a firefighter who died on the job saving a little girl.
The three grim reapers (were not so grim as they were bantering along the way) came to get Kim Ja-Hong, the firefighter and thought that they had their Number 48 paragon.
Kim Ja Hong realised that he was dead but he was assured by the three reapers/guardians that because he was a paragon of a man he has 49 days to complete the 7 trials. Passing them should be a doddle to a paragon like him. This would mean that he will be on his wall to immediate reincarnation.
Young Deok-Soon also mentioned that he was the 48th paragon they had been waiting for the last 19 years. Another one will mean they will be reincarnated themselves.
But it was not so easy as they thought. Paragon he may be but his life story is more convoluted.