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| Hangul | 염력 |
| Hanja | 念力 |
| Revised Romanization | Yeomnyeok |
| Directed by | Yeon Sang-ho |
| Written by | Yeon Sang-ho |
| Produced by | Kim Yeon-ho |
| Starring | Ryu Seung-ryong Shim Eun-kyung Park Jeong-min Kim Min-jae Jung Yu-mi |
| Cinematography | Byun Bong-sun |
| Edited by | Yang Jin-mo |
| Music by | Jang Young-gyu |
Production company | Redpeter Film |
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Release date |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$7 million[2] |
Psychokinesis (Korean: 염력; Hanja: 念力; RR: Yeomnyeok) is a 2018 South Korean superhero film written and directed by Yeon Sang-ho.[3][4][5] The film stars Ryu Seung-ryong, Shim Eun-kyung, Park Jeong-min, Kim Min-jae and Jung Yu-mi in the lead roles.[6][7] This is director Yeon Sang-ho's second live-action film, following his live-action debut Train to Busan in 2016. It is the first South Korean superhero film, and revolves around a bank security guard who gains telekinetic superpowers after drinking water from a mountain spring affected by a meteor, and decides to use them for saving his estranged daughter and her neighborhood from an evil construction company.
Psychokinesis was released on January 31, 2018 in South Korean theaters, in both 2D as well as ScreenX formats.[8] The film was later on made available to stream globally on Netflix starting April 25, 2018.
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- ^ "Psychokinesis: ScreenX". Archived from the original on 2018-02-20. Retrieved 2018-02-20.