TIFF 2025 Review: South Korean Comedy ‘Good News’ Gets Plenty of Laughs From Some Very Stupid People

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It’s 1970. A plane leaves Tokyo’s Haneda airport. Its destination is Itazuke. But several passengers are about to change its course. Members of the Red Army Faction, armed with guns, knives, and a homemade bomb, hijack the flight and demand to be taken to Pyongyang. They want to join forces with North Korea and use their fellow passengers as collateral to prevent their arrest. It’s a messy and dangerous plan, one that is hard to stop. In Seoul, a strange off-the-grid figure who calls himself Nobody is brought in to mount a rescue mission. All he needs is someone who can read radar and wants to be a hero.

Director Byun Sung-hyun takes inspiration from

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