Movie
Helpless (2012) is a Korean film adaptation starring Kim Min-hee as Sun-young/Kyung-sun (Shoko/Kyoko), Lee Seon-gyun as her jilted fiancé Mun-ho, Jo Sung-ha as Mun-ho's cousin Kim Jong-geun (Honma) and Cha Soo-yeon as the real Sun-young. Unlike in the original Japanese book, where Jun walks out on Honma and refuses to believe he has been tricked (thereby not playing a role in most of the story), Mun-ho helps out Jong-geun in the investigation, despite their differences. Additionally, whereas Honma was just taking leave from his police job and his wife Chizuko was deceased, Kim has resigned from his job in the police department and his wife, Hannah, is still alive.
The original Korean title is Hwacha (the cognate of kasha and written with the same hanja), however, the term in Korean usually refers to arrow cannons, the kind used to resist the Japanese invasions by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's naval forces in the 16th century.
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