A new domestic crime movie has drawn more than 180,000 viewers on its opening day, data showed Friday, the highest opening-day record for all Korean films released this year.
“The Classified File” topped the daily box-office upon its release on Thursday with 181,749 viewers, beating Hollywood blockbuster “Jurassic World,” according to the Korean Film Council.
Directed by Kwak Kyung-taek, best known for “Friend” (2001), the movie starring Kim Yun-seok and Yoo Hae-jin is based on a real-life story in 1978 Busan, in which a fortune-teller and a police detective form an unlikely partnership to conduct a secret investigation and bring a kidnapped girl back home.
Korean films have performed poorly in a market dominated by Hollywood blockbusters such as “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and “Jurassic World” so far this year.
The previous opening-day record for a Korean film this year was 150,000 shared by “Gangnam Blues” and “Twenty.”
Meanwhile, “The Silenced,” a local mystery-drama film that opened on the same day as “The Classified File” sold 53,657 tickets on the first day of its run. (Yonhap)
