Steel Rain 2: Summit (2020) HD

Daddy Izz 11/12/2021

A summit of leaders of South Korea, North Korea, and the U.S. is meant to have them discuss North Korea’s nuclear issue and a peace settlement for the Korean peninsula, but instead, the leaders end up being abducted.

Steel Rain 2: Summit (Korean: 강철비2: 정상회담 RR: Gangcheolbi 2: Jeongsanghoedam) is a 2020 South Korean action thriller film[4] written and directed by Yang Woo-suk. It is a standalone sequel to the 2017 film Steel Rain. In the film, three leaders each from South Korea, North Korea and USA are kidnapped and held in a North Korean nuclear submarine during a summit between the two Koreas and the United States. It stars Jung Woo-sung as the South Korean president, Kwak Do-won as the North Korean Supreme Guard Command Chief, Yoo Yeon-seok as the North Korean Supreme leader and Angus Macfadyen as the United States president.

The film was theatrically released in South Korea on 29 July 2020

SYNOPSIS STEEL RAIN 2: SUMMIT

The film starts with a secret meeting between the director of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, Song Shikai and Shinzo Mori, the director of the Yamato Foundation, an influential Japanese ultranationalist organization with ties in the Japanese government.

Director Mori shows director Song the playbook of a ploy called Operation Kagemusha. The strategic goal of "Kagemusha" is to defeat China politically and militarily through a US-Japanese alliance and expel the Chinese from the Diaoyu Islands. However, Mori also shows director Song an altered version of Operation Kagemusha that involves Dokdo; the disputed isles between South Korea and Japan.

As Song asks why Mori is revealing this information to him, Mori gives Song a choice: China will either be crushed under the full might of the US-Japanese military according to the original Kagemusha playbook, or Song can avert war by using his position as the head of the MSS to prevent Beijing from interfering in Dokdo on behalf of North Korea and furthermore assist him and the Yamato Foundation's supporters inside the Japanese government to take Dokdo from the Koreans and wipe out the Republic of Korea military instead, as described in the "alternative" version of Kagemusha.

Mori summarizes it to Song: "Kagemusha on Senkaku (Diaoyu Islands) or Kagemusha on Takeshima (Dokdo)". South Korea is invited by the U.S. to join the Senkaku exercises as a member of the tripartite alliance but the South Korean President Han Kyeong-Jae refuses the invitation. In a briefing for Dokdo, Han learns about a month-old incident wherein a Coast Guard patrol vessel captain turned himself in to the National Security Office (NSO) and explained about his meeting with a Japanese-Korean woman who lured him into a debt as per which he was required to attack a Japanese ship sailing around the Dokdo, without any warning shots.

The woman, named Ito Hideko, works for the Yamato Foundation, a fund for right-wing Japanese extremists. The ministers fear the repetition of the 2006 Dokdo War. In Japan, Shinzo Mori riles up the public by showing Japanese citizens a revised version of history through his literary works. Mori lays down the outline for a plot as per which Japan will pretend to engage in a war with China as per America's wishes, but instead will use this opportunity to regain lost territories. Mori's interest goes out especially to Dokdo, as he believes that the expansion of Japanese reign through the region always began in Korea. By fighting a war with Korea, he hopes to "awaken the dormant Japanese spirit", and make Japan the powerful empire again it once was.

Han and his ministers learn that the U.S. State Department has indefinitely postponed its summit with the two Korean countries, citing issues with the procedure of nuclear weapon handover. Han asks for a video conference with the U.S. President Willis Chatman Smoot who refuses to do so unless South Korea participates in the Senkaku exercises. Han reluctantly agrees, and learns about Yamato Foundation's apparent funding by the Chinese government.

CAST

1. Jung Woo-Sung as Han Kyeong-jae, South Korean President
2. Kwak Do-won as North Korean Supreme Guard Command Chief
3. Yoo Yeon-seok as Jo Seon-sa, the North Korean Supreme leader
4. Angus Macfadyen as Willis Chatman Smoot, the United States President
5. Shin Jung-geun as Jang Ki-sok, the former head of North Korean submarine command
6. Yum Jung-ah as the South Korean First Lady
7. Shin Soo-yeon as Han Young-hee
8. Hakuryu as Shinzo Mori, Japanese billionaire and right wing activist
9. Ahn Nae-sang as the South Korean Minister of National Defense
10. Kim Yong-rim as the South Korean Prime Minister
11. Jo Woo-jin as the South Korean submarine captain
12. Go Yoon as Chief Han of the Presidential Protocol
13. Choi Min-chul as North Korean General Guards officer #2
14. Kim Myung-gon as the Chinese Ambassador in Seoul
15. Jang Gwang
16. Kristen Dalton as the United States Vice President
17. Shim Hee-sub as an Wire tapper

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