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* SpiritualSuccessor: Yesterday can be seen as a Korean version of Ghost in the Shell.[[note]]Before the 2017 movie came out.[[/note]] Both contain societies with high technology advancement, but have problems with the influx of refugees, the divide between the upper/middle and lower classes and the economic disadvantages. Both also centers on small elite units meant to tackle cases when urgently needed by the government with CoolGuns being used in their arsenals.
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[[caption-width-right:350:You know, that's a really good question.]]
''Yesterday'' (or 예스터데이/Yeseuteodeyi in Korean) is a 2002 science fiction/detective drama movie directed by Chong Yun-su. It stars Kim Seung-woo, Yunjin Kim, Choi Min-soo. It also features Kim Sun-a, who first debuted in her first movie role after being initially active in the Korean acting industry since 1996, but didn't get much recognition from Korean viewers.
When it first debuted, the FIFA 2002 World Cup was being held. As such, the box office revenue was $2 million dollars with a budget of $5 million dollars was when it debuted on June 13, 2002. It was widely released in parts of Asia, Europe and in the Americas.
Jung Han-chul won a Silver Price award at the Golden Cinema Festival for his cinematography work on the movie.
The movie takes place in the year 2020 when North and South Korea were successfully unified. During that time, Korean law enforcement established the ''Special Investigations'' Unit (SI or SIU), a crack anti-criminal unit formed from seconded law enforcement officers from disbanded North and South Korean law enforcement agencies. Among them is Yun Suk, an [[ExperiencedProtagonist experienced SI officer]] who has been tasked to investigate the case of a mysterious serious killer known as ''Goliath''. Goliath was reported to be involved in the deaths of certain government [=VIPs=].
Yun Suk's life began to take a spiral after he was involved in a raid in the Chinese-Korean border region where Goliath was reported to hold his son, Hanbyul, hostage in order to lure him out. While his men were killed, it also [[ShootTheShaggyDog included Hanbyul]] after he was posed to make him look like him from a distance. After the raid, ItsPersonal for Suk to investigate and hunt down Goliath for what he did.
Kim Hisu, a well-known forensic profiler, is involved in an incident where her father, the Commissioner of the Korean National Police Agency is held hostage during a terrorist incident.
In both incidents, Goliath leaves behind a pendant that's somehow linked to the mysterious headaches and visions they've been receiving. As the two work with the rest of SI to investigate Goliath, it somehow leads to a mysterious black ops project launched by the former South Korean government in a gene enhancing project that was shelved for unknown reasons after children were kidnapped in the 1990s.
The Korean trailer can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MuMAl9o1bo be seen here]].
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!The film contains examples of:
* ActionPrologue: The movie starts when the SI is deployed to the Chinese-Korean border in cooperation with the Korean military against Goliath.
* BitterSweetEnding: Suk and Hisu were able to defeat Goliath, ending his serial killings. However, it comes at a price when most of the SI's manpower was taken out by Goliath and his HiredGuns. Suk decides to keep Hanbyul's memories alive by having his remains cremated and move on from his mistake after he wanted to preserve his body to be cloned.
* ColdSniper: Most of the mercenaries recruited by Goliath are ex-Border Rangers.
* DrivingQuestion: Why is Goliath after the [=VIPs=]? What's his game with Yun Suk and Kim Hisu? And what does the pendant and headaches they have been encountering lately have to do with the abduction of children in the 90s?
* DynamicEntry: The SI team led by Suk breached the cabin in the prologue by using a tunnel underneath with the place breached by flashbangs and by simultaneous breaching to take down Goliath's men. [[WouldHurtAChild This plan also led to Hanbyul's death.]]
** During the raid on the immigrant ghetto, a SWAT element conducts a door breach by using a shotgun loaded with 12 gauge explosive rounds.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: The ''SI'' unit of the Korean National Police Agency. However, certain parts of the movie doesn't stop from making them to either MenOfSherwood or RedShirts, depending on the scenes.
* FastRoping: During the raid on the immigrant ghetto camp, a SWAT element rappels into a building where the KNP commissioner is reported to be held prisoner. However, a [[HiredGuns mook hired by Goliath]] [[CombatPragmatist was hiding on the ceiling and shot the SWAT operators after they breached the room]]. [[spoiler:It also helps that he was a former ranger-trained soldier stationed at the border.]]
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: The Border Rangers unit, being supposedly from the unified Korean Army. According to the movie, most of them have become armed criminals in order to survive. The movie implies that it's been the case if SI gets in a criminal case concerning murder or ex-rangers get recruited after their discharges as HiredGuns.
* GoodGunsBadGuns: Both SI and SWAT use Heckler & Koch [=MP5s=], [=G36s=] and Beretta [=92Fs=]. The bad guys mostly use [=AK=]-type assault rifles, but some use the Heckler & Koch [=MP5K=] and the [=MK23=] SOCOM.
* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The Koreas would have unified before 2020. As of this article being published[[note]]2018[[/note]], there are signs that the North is willing to denuclearize itself of nukes if the Americans are willing to drop some sanctions.
* GondorCallsForAid: SI calls on SWAT units to accompany them in incidents concerning Goliath. Since the SI are mostly full-time officers with little to no anti-crime/terrorist training and rely on the presence of using their Beretta [=92Fs=] and Heckler & Koch [=G36s=] to overwhelm the opposition, the SWAT units serves as armed backup in order to even the odds.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The SI.
* HostageSituation: A few take place in the movie. One concerns Hanbyul. The other concerns Commissioner Kim and the other concerns Hisu. Although the latter is PlayedForLaughs since SI doesn't even care, her hostage taker looks like a molester and he's not holding the fork close to her. Plus Hisu is frustrated at his attempt.
* JurisdictionFriction: Between the SI and the [=BRs=]. Justified that the movie implies that some of the rank and file of the [=BRs=] have turned to criminal activity and are the usual suspects if a criminal case falls into SI jurisdiction.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The visions of the missing children Suk and Goliath see on the abandoned research ship before the explosives destroyed it.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/yesterday.htm The article mentions that the movie can be looked at from a historical/social context]] of modern-day Korea after its liberation from Japanese occupation by the Allies and the dictator governments it once had.
** Yunjin Kim being casted can speak of her presence in the movie as an American-raised woman born of Korean parents who made her luck in the Korean entertainment industry before she became known outside of Asia in shows like LOST and The Mistresses, following the first example.
** Scenes where homeless people abound and the presence of a ghetto full of foreign refugees stream from the question on whether Korean unification is worth it, especially since it can be an economic burden if the South does go and pay for the economic costs alone.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Yesterday can be seen as a Korean version of Ghost in the Shell.[[note]]Before the 2017 movie came out.[[/note]] Both contain societies with high technology advancement, but have problems with the influx of refugees, the divide between the upper/middle and lower classes and the economic disadvantages. Both also centers on small elite units meant to tackle cases when urgently needed by the government with CoolGuns being used in their arsenals.
* SWATTeam: A [=KNPA=] SWAT team works with SI in the movie. But like the SI, they are either helpful or they get turned to a RedshirtArmy.
** TheFaceless: The SWAT team operators are seen with facemasks covering their mouths with balaclavas and ballistic goggles.
* {{Zeerust}}: The video boxes seen throughout Korea.
[[caption-width-right:350:You know, that's a really good question.]]
''Yesterday'' (or 예스터데이/Yeseuteodeyi in Korean) is a 2002 science fiction/detective drama movie directed by Chong Yun-su. It stars Kim Seung-woo, Yunjin Kim, Choi Min-soo. It also features Kim Sun-a, who first debuted in her first movie role after being initially active in the Korean acting industry since 1996, but didn't get much recognition from Korean viewers.
When it first debuted, the FIFA 2002 World Cup was being held. As such, the box office revenue was $2 million dollars with a budget of $5 million dollars was when it debuted on June 13, 2002. It was widely released in parts of Asia, Europe and in the Americas.
Jung Han-chul won a Silver Price award at the Golden Cinema Festival for his cinematography work on the movie.
The movie takes place in the year 2020 when North and South Korea were successfully unified. During that time, Korean law enforcement established the ''Special Investigations'' Unit (SI or SIU), a crack anti-criminal unit formed from seconded law enforcement officers from disbanded North and South Korean law enforcement agencies. Among them is Yun Suk, an [[ExperiencedProtagonist experienced SI officer]] who has been tasked to investigate the case of a mysterious serious killer known as ''Goliath''. Goliath was reported to be involved in the deaths of certain government [=VIPs=].
Yun Suk's life began to take a spiral after he was involved in a raid in the Chinese-Korean border region where Goliath was reported to hold his son, Hanbyul, hostage in order to lure him out. While his men were killed, it also [[ShootTheShaggyDog included Hanbyul]] after he was posed to make him look like him from a distance. After the raid, ItsPersonal for Suk to investigate and hunt down Goliath for what he did.
Kim Hisu, a well-known forensic profiler, is involved in an incident where her father, the Commissioner of the Korean National Police Agency is held hostage during a terrorist incident.
In both incidents, Goliath leaves behind a pendant that's somehow linked to the mysterious headaches and visions they've been receiving. As the two work with the rest of SI to investigate Goliath, it somehow leads to a mysterious black ops project launched by the former South Korean government in a gene enhancing project that was shelved for unknown reasons after children were kidnapped in the 1990s.
The Korean trailer can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MuMAl9o1bo be seen here]].
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!The film contains examples of:
* ActionPrologue: The movie starts when the SI is deployed to the Chinese-Korean border in cooperation with the Korean military against Goliath.
* BitterSweetEnding: Suk and Hisu were able to defeat Goliath, ending his serial killings. However, it comes at a price when most of the SI's manpower was taken out by Goliath and his HiredGuns. Suk decides to keep Hanbyul's memories alive by having his remains cremated and move on from his mistake after he wanted to preserve his body to be cloned.
* ColdSniper: Most of the mercenaries recruited by Goliath are ex-Border Rangers.
* DrivingQuestion: Why is Goliath after the [=VIPs=]? What's his game with Yun Suk and Kim Hisu? And what does the pendant and headaches they have been encountering lately have to do with the abduction of children in the 90s?
* DynamicEntry: The SI team led by Suk breached the cabin in the prologue by using a tunnel underneath with the place breached by flashbangs and by simultaneous breaching to take down Goliath's men. [[WouldHurtAChild This plan also led to Hanbyul's death.]]
** During the raid on the immigrant ghetto, a SWAT element conducts a door breach by using a shotgun loaded with 12 gauge explosive rounds.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: The ''SI'' unit of the Korean National Police Agency. However, certain parts of the movie doesn't stop from making them to either MenOfSherwood or RedShirts, depending on the scenes.
* FastRoping: During the raid on the immigrant ghetto camp, a SWAT element rappels into a building where the KNP commissioner is reported to be held prisoner. However, a [[HiredGuns mook hired by Goliath]] [[CombatPragmatist was hiding on the ceiling and shot the SWAT operators after they breached the room]]. [[spoiler:It also helps that he was a former ranger-trained soldier stationed at the border.]]
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: The Border Rangers unit, being supposedly from the unified Korean Army. According to the movie, most of them have become armed criminals in order to survive. The movie implies that it's been the case if SI gets in a criminal case concerning murder or ex-rangers get recruited after their discharges as HiredGuns.
* GoodGunsBadGuns: Both SI and SWAT use Heckler & Koch [=MP5s=], [=G36s=] and Beretta [=92Fs=]. The bad guys mostly use [=AK=]-type assault rifles, but some use the Heckler & Koch [=MP5K=] and the [=MK23=] SOCOM.
* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The Koreas would have unified before 2020. As of this article being published[[note]]2018[[/note]], there are signs that the North is willing to denuclearize itself of nukes if the Americans are willing to drop some sanctions.
* GondorCallsForAid: SI calls on SWAT units to accompany them in incidents concerning Goliath. Since the SI are mostly full-time officers with little to no anti-crime/terrorist training and rely on the presence of using their Beretta [=92Fs=] and Heckler & Koch [=G36s=] to overwhelm the opposition, the SWAT units serves as armed backup in order to even the odds.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The SI.
* HostageSituation: A few take place in the movie. One concerns Hanbyul. The other concerns Commissioner Kim and the other concerns Hisu. Although the latter is PlayedForLaughs since SI doesn't even care, her hostage taker looks like a molester and he's not holding the fork close to her. Plus Hisu is frustrated at his attempt.
* JurisdictionFriction: Between the SI and the [=BRs=]. Justified that the movie implies that some of the rank and file of the [=BRs=] have turned to criminal activity and are the usual suspects if a criminal case falls into SI jurisdiction.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The visions of the missing children Suk and Goliath see on the abandoned research ship before the explosives destroyed it.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/yesterday.htm The article mentions that the movie can be looked at from a historical/social context]] of modern-day Korea after its liberation from Japanese occupation by the Allies and the dictator governments it once had.
** Yunjin Kim being casted can speak of her presence in the movie as an American-raised woman born of Korean parents who made her luck in the Korean entertainment industry before she became known outside of Asia in shows like LOST and The Mistresses, following the first example.
** Scenes where homeless people abound and the presence of a ghetto full of foreign refugees stream from the question on whether Korean unification is worth it, especially since it can be an economic burden if the South does go and pay for the economic costs alone.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Yesterday can be seen as a Korean version of Ghost in the Shell.[[note]]Before the 2017 movie came out.[[/note]] Both contain societies with high technology advancement, but have problems with the influx of refugees, the divide between the upper/middle and lower classes and the economic disadvantages. Both also centers on small elite units meant to tackle cases when urgently needed by the government with CoolGuns being used in their arsenals.
* SWATTeam: A [=KNPA=] SWAT team works with SI in the movie. But like the SI, they are either helpful or they get turned to a RedshirtArmy.
** TheFaceless: The SWAT team operators are seen with facemasks covering their mouths with balaclavas and ballistic goggles.
* {{Zeerust}}: The video boxes seen throughout Korea.
