The Villainess

The Villainess is a 2017 South Korean action thriller film directed by Jung Byung-gil, starring Kim Ok-vin. The film had its world premiere at the 70th Cannes Film Festival in May 2017. According to Jung, the movie was inspired by La Femme Nikita by Luc Besson, which he had seen at the age of 10. Plot Sook-hee, a highly skilled assassin, enters a hallway and kills numerous people before being surrounded by cops and smiling. Later, Sook-Hee is drugged and taken to South Korea's intelligence agency, who provide her plastic surgery. To give her a new start, they also fake her death and assign her a new name: Chae Yeon-soo. Yeon-soo learns that she is pregnant, and the agency's leader, Kwon-sook, offers her freedom if she trains with them and works as their agent for ten years. She accepts and while in training, gives birth to a daughter, Eun-hye. Having completed her first assignment, Yeon-soo is given an apartment to share with her daughter. Unknown to Yeon-soo, Kwon-sook places an agent named Jung Hyun-soo in the apartment next door, who is to befriend Yeon-soo and keep tabs on her. After a few meetings, Yeon-soo and Hyun-soo fall for each other. Later, Yeon-soo is sent on her first "assignment". The target she kills turns out to be the father of a young girl. This triggers the memories of her past