So given the numbers being racked up by the South Korean spy thriller Swiri, you'd expect the film to have all the nuance of Schwarzenegger doing Shakespeare.

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Byung-hun Lee, a major Korean movie star, was put in one of the film's title roles.

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As the film opens, he sits onstage before a contemporary audience and sings of an eighteenth-century Korean Romeo and Juliet.

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