‘Kill Boksoon’ Filmmaker Talks Netflix Action Thriller With Shades of Female ‘John Wick’

Byun Sung-hyun's well-received hitwoman flick stars Jeon De-yeon as a single mom who's also secretly a contract killer.

— a style of filmmaking that was totally new to Jeon.

“I couldn’t come up with the heroine’s name for a while. I tend to use the names of the people I know when I write a script. Then one day [when we met], a name for Jeon’s aunt popped up on her phone as ‘aunt Boksoon.’ Right away, I wanted to use that name. Jeon insisted she didn’t want to use the name, but I ended up using it anyway.”

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