Pawn (2020 film)

Pawn
Theatrical release poster
Hangul
담보
Revised RomanizationDambo
Directed byKang Dae-gyu
Screenplay byYoon Je-kyoon
Produced byYoon Je-kyoon
Starring
CinematographyYoon Joo-hwan
Edited byYang jin-mo
Production
companies
JK Film
Redrover Co Ltd
Film Company Youn
Distributed byCJ Entertainment
Release date
  • September 29, 2020 (2020-09-29)
Running time
113 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box officeUS$13.6 million[1]

Pawn (Korean담보; RRDambo; MRlit: Collateral) is a 2020 South Korean comedy drama film, directed by Kang Dae-gyu and produced by Yoon Je-kyoon.[2] The film starring Sung Dong-il, Ha Ji-won, Kim Hee-won and Park So-yi, is a human drama which revolves around two debt collectors, Doo-seok (Sung Dong-il) and Jong-bae (Kim Hee-won), who take nine-year-old girl Seung-yi (Park So-yi) as "collateral" from her mother, an illegal immigrant.[3]

The film was released in theaters on September 29, 2020.[4] It received generally positive reviews and became the sixth-highest-grossing Korean film of 2020.[5][6]

  1. ^ "South Korea Box Office Pawn (2020)". KOFIC. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  2. ^ Dong, Sun-hwa (October 15, 2020). "Film 'Pawn' conquers box office". The Korea Times. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
  3. ^ "Pawn". HanCinema.
  4. ^ Sun-hwa, Dong (October 12, 2020). "Family movie 'Pawn' tops 1 mln admissions on 11th day". Yonhap News. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
  5. ^ Conran, Pierce (October 13, 2020). "PAWN Remains Top Draw Post-Chuseok". KOFIC. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  6. ^ "KOBIS (Korean Box Office Information System) Yearly". KOFIC. Retrieved January 3, 2021.