Movie
The Attorney
Overview
Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good.
Details
- Release date
- 2013-12-18
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- WithUs Films, Next Entertainment World, Will Entertainment, Finecut
- Country
- South Korea
- Original language
- KO
Cast
- Song Kang-ho as Song Woo-seok
- Kim Young-ae as Choi Sun-ae
- Oh Dal-su as Park Dong-ho
- Yim Si-wan as Park Jin-woo
- Kwak Do-won as Cha Dong-yeong
- Jo Min-ki as Kang Byeong-chul
- Song Young-chang as Lee Seok-ju
- Lee Sung-min as Lee Yoon-taek
- Jung Won-joong as Kim Sang-pil
- Lee Hang-na as Jang Soo-kyeong
- Sim Hee-seop as Medical Officer
- Ryu Soo-young as Lee Chang-jun
Crew
- Yang Woo-seok - Director
- Yang Woo-seok - Screenplay
- Yoon Hyun-ho - Screenplay
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