GoPlay is launching three new South Korean films this month and November as pay-per-view offerings, including the long-awaited standalone sequel to Train to Busan.
Users of Gojek's video-on-demand (VOD) platform GoPlay will be able to enjoy three newly released South Korean films.
Now available on GoPlay Rental is Steel Rain 2: Summit, released in July.
The "sequel" to the 2017 action-thriller Steel Rain centers on negotiating a peace treaty between North Korea and the United States, with South Korea moderating. Alas, the summit falls apart when a North Korean general stages a coup, abducts the three leaders and holds them aboard a nuclear submarine. Steel Rain 2 racked up 1 million moviegoers during the week of its release in South Korea.
Yang Woo-seok is back in the director’s seat for the second iteration, which isn't exactly a sequel but reunites celebrated South Korean actors Jung Woo-sung and Kwak Do-won from its predecessor and also features Yoo Yeon-seok.
Jung plays different characters in the two films that experience a transformation. In Steel Rain, he plays Eom Chul-woo, a former agent of the North Korean Special Forces, while in Steel Rain 2, he plays the South Korean President Han Kyeong-jae.
GoPlay Rental is set to launch on Nov. 1 another Korean box-office movie, Deliver Us from Evil, which tells of an assassin named In-nam. Amid his efforts to unravel a kidnapping plot in Thailand, he is being hunted down by a relative of one of his targets.
Starring actors Hwang Jung-min and Lee Jung-jae, 4.3 million moviegoers attended the Korean premiere for Deliver Us from Evil this summer.
Meanwhile, fans of the award-winning zombie thriller Train to Busan (2016) can look forward to watching its highly anticipated sequel, Peninsula, on GoPlay Rental in mid-November.
Taking place four years after the Korean zombie outbreak, Peninsula follows Jung-seok, a soldier, as he returns to the Korean peninsula with a few friends to retrieve a truck filled with money. They’re promised half of the money if they return safely with the truck.
Helmed by Yeon Sang-ho, Peninsula topped box offices worldwide in less than a month after its global premiere in early July.
GoPlay was launched in September 2019 as part of Gojek, the homegrown on-demand transportation and delivery services app, with five new original series helmed by Indonesian filmmakers: Jadi Ngaji, Work from Home, Unprofessional Cooking Show, Mama Mama Millenial and the second season of Gossip Girl, based on its namesake American TV series. (wir/wng)
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