The Seeds of Violence (2017)
An Army private fails to expose abuses he suffered from his senior. When every member of his platoon gets passes, the senior starts searching for the culprit who tried to report him.
Top billed cast
Lee Ga-subJoo-yong
Jung Jae-yoon
Kim Soy
Park Seong-il- Oh Gyu-cheol
Park Kang-seop- Kim Geun-tae
- Jung Jae-u
- Ahn Jong-seop
- Kwon Su-jin
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