Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival & the Busan International Film Festival ahead of its streaming debut, Good News ( Gut Nuiuseu ) is the latest film from writer/director Byun Sung-hyun, whom many Netflix subscribers may know from his breakout hit Kill Boksoon (writer/director) and its spinoff Mantis (writer) released only a few weeks ago.

Co-written by Lee Jin-Seong, the story is inspired by the hijacking of a Japanese passenger plane in March 1970 by members of the Japanese Red Army Faction, a militant organization that ran in the late 60s & early 70s; however, as noted by the opening credits, “all characters and events portrayed are fictional”. So if you’re looking for a historical, politically driven recreation of a hostage crisis in the sky, you’ve ma

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