A buddy action film might at first appear to be the wrong forum in which to
explore the effects of the North and South Korean conflict. But director Jang
Hoon has done just that with explosive wit and heart in his second feature, Secret
Reunion.

A young undercover North Korean agent, Song Ji-won (Kang Dong-won), assists
a deadly assassin to kill Kim Jong-il’s cousin, a defector. But when faced with the
task of killing a young child, he refuses to carry out his orders just as a group of South Korean special agents led by Lee Han-kyu (Song Kang-ho) bursts in
causing a deadly gun battle.

Six years later both Ji-won and Han-kyu have been unceremoniously fired and
shamed with Ji-won banished to South Korea, separated from his wife and child.
Han-kyu, now a private detective specialising in runaway mail order brides,
stumbles across Ji-won and they form an uneasy alliance, each hoping to use the
other to regain their honour.

Much like the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, mixed with the first Lethal
Weapon, this buddy film brims with action and laughs with its too fantastically
charming leads :Sang Kang-ho and Kang Dong-won.