“The Kidnapping Day” relies on the novel, “The Day of the Kidnapping”. This Korean drama sequence was launched in 2023, has 12 episodes, and is presently streaming on Amazon Prime.
A determined man kidnaps the daughter of a rich physician to demand a ransom that might be used to pay for his sick daughter’s medical payments and surgical procedure. Ah properly! His coronary heart was in the appropriate place. Even the kidnapped sufferer understands.
♦ A Rich Physician’s Daughter is Kidnapped
“The Kidnapping Day” begins with a scene in a hospital. It’s a day like every other day at a hospital. Numerous sufferers, individuals accompanying sufferers, medical doctors, and different medical workers. A health care provider is there together with his younger daughter Choi Ro-hee. All of a sudden a person comes up from behind to assault him. The person failed and folks have been in a position to subdue him.
However the man is set. He breaks free, picks up a scalpel a nurse had dropped on the ground through the commotion, and goes after the physician once more. This time he succeeds in attacking the physician. The physician appears to be like on the face of his daughter who’s frightened and in shock.
The scene adjustments and the kidnapper, a person named Kim Myeong-Jun, is on the telephone speaking to somebody who’s his accomplice in crime. She satisfied him that the “job” could be easy. Most significantly, no person is meant to get severely damage.
Why would the kidnapper wish to damage anybody? In spite of everything, he has a daughter. The one purpose he agreed to the kidnapping was as a result of he wanted cash to pay for her medical payments and surgical procedure. He agreed to kidnap the physician’s daughter, accumulate the ransom, and return the kid. Solely that’s not what occurred.
The kidnapper is unable to achieve the mother and father so he goes by their residence to look at the scenario. When he arrives, he sees two (2) useless our bodies being carried out. The lady’s mother and father have been murdered. He’s confused. That wasn’t the plan.
♦ Let’s Simply Make Issues Proper
Issues have escalated from a kidnapping to a double homicide and a kidnapping. The kidnapper contacts his accomplice and she or he claims she doesn’t know what’s happening both.
The kidnapper is confused and the police are equally baffled.
- Why was there no ransom demand?
- Why have been the mother and father murdered?
- The place is the daughter?
It’s not troublesome for the kidnapper to regulate his kidnapped sufferer. She has misplaced her reminiscence and believes the kidnapper is her father. However he can’t proceed to deceive the younger lady, so he comes to a decision.
He contacts his accomplice and tells her that he’ll return to the lady safely, confess to the crime of kidnapping, and never incriminate anybody else. However earlier than he does this he’ll go to the hospital to see his sick daughter one final time. OK. Appears like an excellent revised plan.
Nonetheless, whereas he was out making an attempt to get particulars in regards to the mother and father, somebody broke into the place the place he was staying with the lady and tried to kidnap her once more!
The lady has survival instincts and manages to flee. The kidnapper arrived again simply in time to rescue her from … “the opposite kidnapper”. (???) Why is there one other kidnapper?
♦ The Kidnapped Begins to Regain Her Reminiscence
Choi Ro-hee begins to regain bits and items of her reminiscence. She realizes that she shouldn’t be the kidnapper’s daughter, however doesn’t assume he’s a nasty individual. She convinces him to inform her who he’s and why he kidnapped her.
The story about Kim Myeong-Jun’s sick daughter makes her sympathetic. Nonetheless! Can’t he let her go residence? She guarantees to not inform anybody about him. So he takes her to the police station. The plan is to present him time to get away and she’s going to inform the police who she is to allow them to take her residence.
However Choi Ro-hee out of the blue remembers one thing about her residence and a police automotive. It’s a troubling and even scary reminiscence. A reminiscence that makes her assume that the police can’t be trusted. She alters her thoughts and as a substitute tells the police that she has misplaced her father, and desires assist discovering him.
The policeman helps her reunite with the kidnapper, who she is now referring to as “father”. The kidnapper is confused once more! That wasn’t the plan! Why do the plans hold altering?
She confides in him about her fears of the police. If her mother and father are rich and crooked police are concerned, then they’re most likely each at risk. He may need been duped into kidnapping her for his personal daughter’s sake. However there’s something that the kidnapper was not informed.
But when they will’t belief the police, who can they belief? How can she be returned safely? From that time, the kidnapper, Kim Myeong-Jun, and the kidnapped, Choi Ro-hee, begin working collectively to keep away from the police AND to save lots of themselves.
Predominant Characters:
- Choi Ro-Hee (performed by Yu-Na, “Hellbound”)
- Kim Myeong-Jun (performed by Yoon Kye-Sang, “Spiritwalker”)
Viewership and Ranking:
My private score is similar because the Amazon Prime Video viewers. This Ok-drama sequence has gotten a variety of buzz and it’s comprehensible. I liked the chemistry between the kidnapper and the kidnapped. Their relationship appeared even nearer than a father and daughter. They made a terrific group.
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TRAILERS/TEASERS:
Prime Video Singapore. “The Kidnapping Day | Official Trailer | Amazon Prime.” YouTube Video. YouTube, September 5, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2313ieW1IXI.
