The Advocate: A Missing Body (2015)

Director
Jong-ho Huh

Main cast
Kim Go-Eun; Lee Sun-Kyun; Jang Hyun-sung; Im Won-hee

Genres
Thriller, Action

Description
A lawyer and a prosecutor take on a murder case that has no evidence or a body.


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