Overview of Jung_E
The film ‘Jung_E’ starring Kim Hyun-joo, Kang Soo-yeon and Ryu Kyung-soo tells the story of a time when humans are forced to vacate Earth to the shelters they made in space due to extreme climate change. When a war breaks out in the shelters for power, the scientist creates Jung-E robots by cloning the brain of the soldier Yun Jung-yi. When the war calls off, the Jung-E robots get altered to do domestic work. Yeon Sang-ho achieved his efforts to humanise the robots and makes his audience think about the AI-influenced world in the future. This film is released on 20 January 2023.
Profile
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Movie: ‘Jung_E’
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Genre: Sci-fi, Drama, Action
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Director: Yeon Sang-ho
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Writer: Yeon Sang-ho
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Producer: Byun Seung-min
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Production Companies: Climax Studio, Dexter Studio
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Release Date: 20 January 2023
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Running Time: 99 minutes
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Distributor: Netflix
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Language: Korean
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Country: South Korea
Cast
Main
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Kang Soo-yeon as Yun Seo-hyun
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Park So-yi as young Yun Seo-hyun
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Kim Hyun-joo as Yun Jung-yi / JUNG-E
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Ryu Kyung-soo as Kim Sang-hoon
Supporting
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Uhm Ji-won as Lee Se-yeon
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Lee Dong-hee as Chairman
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Han Woo-yul as Jae-Kyung
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Lee Hyun-Kyun as Doctor

Synopsis
The story takes place in the 22nd century and by that time Earth has lost all its capacity to inhabitate life due to unfavorable climate change. Therefore, to settle mankind somewhere, scientists on Earth develop numerous shelters in space between Earth and Moon. However, the human nature of greed for power and domination makes the three shelters alley together and call themselves the Adrian Republic. The Adrian Republic declares war on the rest of the shelter. Scientists put their faith in Captain Yun Jung-yi, the heroic woman who is fighting against the Adrian Republic.
Yun Jung-yi has a daughter named Yun Seo-hyun and she is a little girl admitted to the hospital for a surgery for lung tumour. On the day of her surgery, Yun Jung-yi says goodbye and leaves for the war. Yun Jung-yi agrees to attend the war to arrange money for her daughter’s surgery. Yun Seo-hyun, before her mother leaves, gives Yun Jung-yi a small doll.
In the war field, Yun Jung-yi loses the doll and the guilt of losing the doll distracts her when she sees a similar doll hanging in a car when she is about to shoot the sturdier model attacker. In that glimpse of distraction, the robot shoots Yun Jung-yi and the deadly shot puts her in a coma.
After thirty-five years, Yun Seo-hyun grows up as a leading scientist and she becomes in charge of the project which clones Yun Jung-yi’s brain into robots to win the war. The robot installed with the cloned brain of Yun Jung-yi is named Jung-E and it loses every time in the final battle, like how Yun Jung-yi lost hers.
As the experiment with Jung-E progresses, Yun Seo-hyun and another scientist discovers the activation of a new area in its brain. When the project of developing robots installed with cloned brains of Yun Jung-yi calls off due to the peace treaty between the rivals, the scientist loses interest to look into the newly activated brain area dictated in Jung-E’s brain. The end of the war rises the need for robots capable of doing domestic work.

One day Yun Seo-hyun hears some voices from a cabin and she rushes to find out what is happening in the cabin. She sees Jung-E naked with a man and he is about to begin his dirty play. Seeing the angry Yun Seo-hyun, the man in the room confesses that he is only fulfilling the orders from his superiors since Jung-E sex toys are in high demand in the market.
Yun Seo-hyun decides to flee with one of the Jung-E robots, but before leaving she tells Jung-E the things that she will encounter if the authority gets hold of her. At that time, Yun Seo-hyun again dictates the activation of the unexplored part of Jung-E’s brain, and she decides to give it a try.
Finally, Yun Seo-hyun discovers that the cloned brain of her mother still cares about the child Yun Seo-hyun whom she left in the hospital for surgery and her desperate wish to know about the well-being of her child. Touched by the love that her mother has for her, Yun Seo-hyun decides to save Jung-E at any cost. Besides, she is again diagnosed with the childhood disease and it has grown to a stage which is unable to cure, therefore she determines to sacrifice her life for Jung-E.
On the train, while they flee they get attacked by the robotic Kim Sang-hoon and in that fight, Yun Seo-hyun gets shot by him but manages to get rid of Kim Sang-hoon. Before Yun Seo-hyun dies she asks Jung-E to flee leaving her behind and start a new life. In the end, Jung-E reaches a hilltop and looks at the new possibility of life that stretches before her.

Theme
Artificial intelligence has already made its firm grip in almost every field. There are films about AI machines and robots turning against humans, nonetheless, ‘Jung_E’ is not just about fight and action. It also holds a bag of emotions for its audience. To win the fight which has occurred between humans and machines, scientists develop new robots by installing brains cloned from humans.
However, when the war ends the Chairman decides to sell the robots inserted with cloned brains for domestic purposes. Furthermore, they are preparing the robot Jung-E which they developed by cloning the brain of the legendary soldier Yun Jung-yi as a sex toy considering its demand in the market. The film discusses the materialistic world that has taken over all the values and emotions of humans. The selfishness of humans makes them live the life of robots with their cloned brains of them as a means of attaining immortality.
Awards
Interesting Facts about Jung_E
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‘Jung_E’ is directed by the accomplished director Yeon Sang-ho, who directed the film ‘Train to Bussan’.
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The film ‘Jung_E’ is dedicated to Kang Soo-yeon.
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‘Jung_E’ secured a position in the Top 10 Netflix movies globally.
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