Hwang Jung-min and Yum Jung-ah Return for Netflix’s ‘Mission: Cross 2’
Netflix is gearing up for the sequel to the action-comedy “Mission: Cross,” with stars Hwang Jung-min and Yum Jung-ah returning for a new high-stakes adventure.
Writer-director Lee Myung-hoon returns at the helm of ‘Mission: Cross 2’, which centers on a national treasure heist operation. The original film topped Netflix’s Global Top 10 Movies (Non-English) list within three days of its 2024 release and was in the top 10 in 43 countries during its second week.
Hwang reprises the role of Kang-mu, a former Special Ops agent who returned to action when the President assigned him to retrieve a stolen national treasure. Yum returns as Mi-seon, a former Asian Games silver medalist turned detective who is demoted to a coastal provincial station before rejoining her husband for the new mission.
The ensemble cast includes several new additions: Yoon Kyung-ho (“The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call”) as Cheon In-hak, head of a shadowy organization targeting cultural treasures; I’m Seong-jae (“Hellbound” season 2) as Duchil, a black market dealer; Cha In-pyo (“What happened to Mr. Cha?”) as president; and Kim Kuk-hee (“Sweet Home”) as the president’s chief of staff. Jung Man-sik, Cha Rae-hyung and Lee Ho-cheol complete the cast.
Netflix has also scheduled a December 5 premiere for the mystery thriller series “The Price of Confession,” Jeon Do-yeon’s first Netflix series. The psychological thriller follows Yun-su, a woman accused of killing her husband, and Mo Eun, a mysterious woman she encounters in prison.
Jeon (“Kill Boksoon,” “Crash Course in Romance”) stars as Yun-su, whose unusual behavior during police interrogation – including asking for coffee and smiling during interrogations – raises questions about her guilt or innocence. Kim Go-eun (“You and Everything Else,” “Little Women”) plays Mo Eun, a woman feared by other inmates as a witch and psychopath, who offers to confess to the murder of Yun-su’s husband in exchange for an unspecified act.
Park Hae-soo (“Squid Game”) appears as prosecutor Baek Dong-hun, while Jin Sun-kyu (“Aema”) plays Yun-su’s lawyer Jang Jeong-gu. The series is directed by Lee Jung-hyo, whose credits include “Crash Landing on You” and “Doona!”
Meanwhile, Netflix Japan has revealed release dates for two titles coming in December: dance film ’10Dance’ and unscripted dating series ‘Badly in Love’.
“10Dance,” which premieres on December 18, is an adaptation of Inouesatoh’s manga about two competitive dancers both named Shinya. Ryoma Takeuchi makes his Netflix film debut as Shinya Suzuki, Japan’s Latin Dance champion, while Keita Machida stars as Shinya Sugiki, Japan’s Ballroom champion and the world’s No. 2 dancer. The pair, returning to the screen for the first time in nearly eight years, navigate a romance that develops as Sugiki challenges Suzuki to compete in the 10-Dance competition, which combines Latin and Ballroom styles.
Keishi Otomo (“Rurouni Kenshin” series, “The Legend & Butterfly”) directs the adaptation, which won the “This BL Is Amazing! 2019” award in its original manga form.
Launching on December 9, ‘Badly in Love’ sees eleven former delinquents gather for a fourteen-day dating experiment at the Badly in Love Academy. The unscripted series concludes with a graduation ceremony where participants must confess their feelings to their chosen romantic interest. The series is produced by Megumi, a former delinquent who developed the project to counter what she sees as contemporary dating culture’s tendency toward overthinking and emotional restraint.
Both titles close out Netflix’s 2025 slate for Japan, along with the upcoming season 2 of “The Boyfriend.”
