KT (film)

KT is a 2002 Japanese-South Korean film directed by Junji Sakamoto with a screenplay by Haruhiko Arai. It is based on the kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung by agents of Park Chung-hee in August 1973 while on a trip to Tokyo. He was released in Seoul after five days.

The title KT means Killing the Target.

Plot
The story is centered on Masuo Tomita, a Japanese intelligence officer who helped arrange for South Korean agents to kidnap and try to kill Park Chung-hee's enemy Kim Dae-jung, who was in exile in Tokyo. Tomita went along with the plan to save a South Korean teacher Lee Jeong-mi, whom he loved.

Cast

 * Kōichi Satō ... Masuo Tomita
 * Kim Kap-soo ... Kim Chang-won
 * Choi Il-hwa ... Kim Dae-jung
 * Yoshio Harada ... Akikazu Kamikawa
 * Michitaka Tsutsui ... Kim Kap-soo
 * Yang Eun-yong ... Lee Jeong-mi
 * Kim Byung-se ... Kim Jung-won
 * Teruyuki Kagawa ...Haruo Satake
 * Akira Emoto ... Hiroshi Uchiyama
 * Kyoko Enami ... Kab-Soos Mother
 * Noboru Hamada ... Minister
 * Masahiro Komoto
 * Akaji Maro ... Susumu Kawahara
 * Ken Mitsuishi ...Yu Chun-seong
 * Ryūshi Mizukami
 * Nana Nakamoto ... Toshiko Takashima
 * Hirochi Oguchi ... Shoichi Tsukada
 * Gō Rijū ... Hong Seong-jin
 * Kenji Sahara... Minister
 * Ken Utsui
 * Hōka Kinoshita
 * Akira Hamada