Jail Breakers (Korean: 광복절 특사; RR: Gwangbokjeol teuksa) is a 2002 South Korean comedy film directed by Kim Sang-jin, and starring Sul Kyung-gu, Cha Seung-won, and Song Yoon-ah. It was a box office hit with a total of 3,073,919 admissions nationwide, making it the 4th highest grossing Korean film of 2002.
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Plot
Two long-term prisoners manage to break out of jail by tunneling underneath the prison wall with a spoon. Upon returning to society, they read in the newspaper that they are scheduled to be pardoned under a special amnesty on the very next day. The desperate warden agrees to pretend nothing happened if they can break back into prison unnoticed.
Cast
Sul Kyung-gu as Yoo Jae-pil
Cha Seung-won as Choi Moo-seok
Song Yoon-ah as Hahn Kyung-soon
Kang Sung-jin as Yong Moon-sin
Kang Shin-il as Prison warden
Yoo Hae-jin as Police officer
Lee Hee-do as Director
Park Jeong-hak as FM
Jang Tae-sung as Cheol-gu
Kim Young-woong as Head of academic affairs