The President’s Last BAng

Based on documented accounts of a failed coup d'état which rocked South Korea in 1979, THE PRESIDENTfiS LAST BANG forges an unique mixture of piercing political commentary with slapstick, and often caustically somber, film comedy.


Set during the 72 hours which lead up to the absurdly violent and failed KCIA (Korean Central Intelligence Agency) takeover, which involved the assassination of "democratically" elected president Park Chunghee (played by veteran actor Song Jaeho), this ambitious South Korean feature both re-erects and ridicules the decaying status quo which was at the top of South Korea's political pyramid during the 1960 and 70s.


When Korean CIA Chief Agent Ju (Han Sukgyu TELL ME SOMETHING, SCARLET LETTER) begins another day of hushing up the petty sexual indiscretions of President Chunghee, he ends up at a weekend presidential retreat with a high-class prostitute, a ditsy pop singer/social climber, and an aggravated KCIA Director, Kim Jaegyu (played by Baik Yoonsik of SAVE THE GREEN PLANET).

After sharing job-duty frustrations, Kim Jaegyu and Chief Agent Ju orchestrate a last-minute, and utterly surreal, intelligentsia coup d'état.

And although KCIA Director Kim Jaegyu himself assassinates South Korea's president, his clueless staff, bewildered by the event's moral consequences and struggling to operate without direct instructions, bungles through the rest of the killing.


Among dead cooks, bodyguards, waiters and cabinet assistants, the disorganized operation leaves some men and the slapdash junta finds itself fatally caught up in convoluted compromises. As the slapstick and confusion escalates, THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG turns into one of the most disturbingly hilarious accounts of politicians and their would-be protectors gone mad ever captured on celluloid.