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Death's Game
Death's Game (Korean: 이재, 곧 죽습니다) is an ongoing South Korean web series written and directed by Ha Byung-hoon, and starring Seo In-guk and Park So-dam. Based on a webtoon of the same name by Lee Won-sik and Ggulchan which was serialized on Naver in 2019, it depicts the story of a person who begins a new life with death in frustration. It is an original drama of TVING and is available for streaming on its platform, and on Amazon Prime Video in selected regions.[5][6]
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Promotional poster | |
| Hangul | 이재, 곧 죽습니다 |
| Literal meaning | Yi-jae, You're Going to Die Soon |
| Revised Romanization | Ijae, got jukseumnida |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ijae, kot chuksŭmnida |
| Genre | |
| Based on | Death's Game by Lee Won-sik and Ggulchan |
| Written by | Ha Byung-hoon[2] |
| Directed by | Ha Byung-hoon[2] |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Park Sung-il[3] |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 4 (as of December 15, 2023) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Lee Ye-seul |
| Producers |
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| Cinematography |
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| Editor | Park Hyun-jung |
| Production companies | |
| Budget | ₩3.3 billion (US$2.88 million) (for VFX)[4] |
| Original release | |
| Network | TVING |
| Release | December 15, 2023 – present |
The series divided into two parts: Part 1 was released on December 15, 2023, and Part 2 is scheduled to be released on January 5, 2024, at 12:00 (KST) time slot.[7]
Synopsis edit
Death's Game tells the story of Choi Yi-jae (Seo In-guk) who, being on the verge of falling into hell, experiences death and reincarnation 12 times due to the judgment of Death (Park So-dam).[8]
Cast edit
Main edit
- Seo In-guk as Choi Yi-jae: a man who lost his will to live after repeatedly failing to find a job for seven years.[9]
- Park So-dam as Death: a mysterious being who condemns Yi-jae to 12 cycles of death and reincarnation before falling into hell.[9]
Yi-jae's reincarnation edit
- Choi Si-won as Park Jin-tae: a 33-year-old second son and successor of Taekang Group.[10]
- Sung Hoon as Song Jae-seop: a 38-year-old extreme sports athlete.[11]
- Kim Kang-hoon as Kwon Hyeok-su: a 17-year-old high school student who's a school bullies' target.[12]
- Jang Seung-jo as Lee Ju-hun: a 35-year-old secret organization fixer who solves any client's request.[11]
- Lee Jae-wook as Cho Tae-sang: a 21-year-old aspiring mixed martial arts fighter who gave up his dream due to his family's circumstances and being imprisoned for some reason.[13]
- Lee Do-hyun as Jang Geon-u: a 24-year-old handsome model and heartthrob who catches everyone's attention wherever he goes.[14]
- Kim Jae-wook as Jung Gyu-cheol: a mysterious painter who was born in an ordinary family.[15]
- Oh Jung-se as Ahn Ji-hyeong: a detective who wanted to become a great police officer like his father.[16]
Supporting edit
- Go Youn-jung as Lee Ji-su: a novelist who has been in a relationship with Yi-jae since they were college students.[17]
- Kim Ji-hoon as Park Tae-woo: the first son of Taekang Group.[18]
- Yoo In-soo as Lee Jin-sang: Hyeok-su's bully classmate.[19]
- Kim Mi-kyung as Yi-jae's mother[20]
- Nam Kyung-eup as Chairman Park: Tae-woo and Jin-tae's father who is founder of Taekang Group.[21]
Special appearances edit
- Kim Sung-cheol as Hyeon-su[22] (Ep. 1)
- Ryeoun as youngest PD[22] (Ep. 1)
Episodes edit
| Part | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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| 1 | 4 | December 15, 2023 | ||
| 2 | 4 | January 5, 2024 | ||
| No. | Title | Original release date | ||||||||||
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| Part 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | "Death" Transcription: "Jugeum" (Korean: 죽음) | December 15, 2023 | ||||||||||
| Choi Yi-jae is on the way to his final interview at Taekang Group before graduating, but his life changes after a man dies in front of him. After struggling for seven years of job seeking, Yi-jae finally decides to end his own life. After jumping from a building, he wakes up in somebody's body sitting in a luxurious plane and meets a mysterious being called "Death". Death enjoys Yi-jae's last will but feels insulted and mocked, so Death punishes him. Yi-jae will die 12 times, and his soul will enter the bodies of 12 people facing imminent death. But if Yi-jae manages to avoid the death of the body he enters, he could live with that body for the rest of his life. Yi-jae refuses to live again, as he is already dead. Death still gives Yi-jae a chance to live. A floating orb appears while Yi-jae is roaming the plane, and it transfers the memories and abilities of the body's original owner to him. After seeing those memories, Yi-jae sees them as an opportunity and changes his mind to continue living. Both Park Jin-tae and Song Jae-seop's bodies die in a painful way and Yi-jae fails to survive. | ||||||||||||
| 2 | "The Reason You're Going to Hell" Transcription: "Jiuk-e ganeun i-yu" (Korean: 지옥에 가는 이유) | December 15, 2023 | ||||||||||
| Yi-jae's sin is great enough to even anger God, and he must find out what that sin is. But if he fails to figure it out, he'll go to hell, even after surviving the remaining deaths. He enters Kwon Hyeok-su's body, a high school student who is being relentlessly bullied by Lee Jin-sang. As he finds a way to survive, he returns to Hyeok-su's house and suddenly remembers his mother. He looks back on his past self and just wants to have a job, get married, and start a family like everyone else. His plan to make Jin-sang an outcast is a success, and when everything is going smoothly, Jin-sang, who was greatly humiliated by his downfall, attacks and repeatedly bludgeons Hyeok-su on the head with a brick until he dies, and Yi-jae fails to survive for the third time. He then enters Lee Ju-hun's body, who is captured after stealing the boss' money but escapes using a motorbike. The organization is hunting down Ju-hun. | ||||||||||||
| 3 | "Death Can't Take Anything Away." Transcription: "Jugeum-eun amugeotdo gajyeogaji mothanda." (Korean: 죽음은 아무것도 가져가지 못한다.) | December 15, 2023 | ||||||||||
| Now as Ju-hun, Yi-jae manages to survive and escapes the manhunt, and he meets up with his lover, planning to elope with her with the money. However, the lover betrayed him and shot him in the head, and Yi-jae failed to escape death for the fourth time. Yi-jae was reincarnated as Cho Tae-sang, a former mixed martial arts fighter who was jailed for a fatal traffic accident, but in fact, Tae-sang was not the real culprit, and he was only accepting a lawyer's offer to take the blame for someone else in exchange for money. Coincidentally, one of Tae-sang's cellmates was Lee Jin-sang, who was found guilty of murdering Hyeok-su. Tae-sang went on to successfully exact his revenge on Jin-sang. However, as Tae-sang threatened his lawyer that he would expose the truth, prisoners were paid to attempt to murder Tae-sang, but he managed to survive and was released four days after Yi-jae entered his body. Upon his release, however, Tae-sang was killed by his cellmate, who was also secretly paid to kill him, rendering this Yi-jae's fifth failure to evade death. In his sixth life, Yi-jae woke up as a five-month-old baby. | ||||||||||||
| 4 | "The Reason You're Afraid of Death" Transcription: "Jugeum-i duryeo-un i-yu" (Korean: 죽음이 두려운 이유) | December 15, 2023 | ||||||||||
| The baby was murdered by his parents, who neglected and abused him. Yi-jae's seventh life immediately commences, and enters the body of famous and handsome model named Jang Geon-u. He then recovers the embezzled money that Ju-hun stole from his boss. At the coffee shop, Yi-jae reunites with his first love, Lee Ji-su, who became a novelist and still loves Yi-jae in spite of their breakup, and she also publishes an award-winning novel that is based on her romantic relationship with Yi-jae. He came to realize that Ji-su still loves him and regrets both the breakup and the decision to commit suicide, seeing that his mother and Ji-su are grieving his death. Yi-jae finally told Ji-su his true identity and that his stories of reincarnations and deaths are true, and just when Yi-jae was about to continue telling Ji-su the truth, a car ran over and killed Ji-su, and causing Geon-u to be seriously injured. The driver turns out Taekang CEO Park Tae-woo, who is connected to him and the four bodies he entered. As Yi-jae reawakens in purgatory and swore revenge against Tae-woo, he confronted Death and aimed the gun at its forehead before a gunshot was heard. | ||||||||||||
| Part 2 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | TBA | January 5, 2024 | ||||||||||
| 6 | TBA | January 5, 2024 | ||||||||||
| 7 | TBA | January 5, 2024 | ||||||||||
| 8 | TBA | January 5, 2024 | ||||||||||
Production edit
The role of Choi Yi-jae was first offered to Kang Ha-neul.[23][24]
On January 13, 2023, it was announced by director Ha Byung-hoon that the production is in the final casting and filming will begin as early as February and will last for about six months.[2]
On February 8, 2023, Seo In-guk and Park So-dam was confirmed as main cast of the series.[9] On February 21, JoyNews24 reported that the actors conducted a full script reading on the 14th and Seo In-guk started to film on the 20th.[25] The drama serial itself was also represented Park's comeback after she took a two-year hiatus to recover from papillary thyroid cancer.[26]
On May 31, 2023, Dexter Studios announced that they will co-produce the VFX of the series with a total budget of ₩3.3 billion.[27]
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External links edit
- Official website (in Korean)
- Death's Game on Amazon Prime Video
- Death's Game at IMDb
- Death's Game at HanCinema
- Death's Game at Naver Webtoon (in Korean)
- Death's Game at Naver Webtoon