Actor Kim Min-ha, who received rave reviews for her portrayal of the hardships endured by Koreans in Japan during the Japanese colonial period in Apple TV+‘s ‘Pachinko’, has captivated viewers once again with her outstanding acting in Disney+’s ‘The Lighting Store’. Next year, she will present her first leading role in the big screen, ‘Exposure: The Child Who Closed His Eyes’.

Kim Min-ha has once again shown her presence with deep acting that goes back and forth between fear and sadness in ‘The Lighting Store’, which is being released from the 4th. He took on the role of writer Seon-hae, who becomes confused after experiencing strange things in his new house. He brought out the character‘s feelings of fear, despair, and dread to the max as he experiences inexplicable things like a repetitive singing sound every day and the electricity going out in the house, but cannot leave the house.

Regarding this, Kim Min-ha explained, “I tried hard to express the sensitive character’s side. I focused on expressing the emotions that come when that sensitive person experiences something.”

He didn‘t just express simple fear. After remembering that the unknown entity that had put him in fear in the house was his same-sex lover Hye-won, he expressed guilt and regret for saying harsh words to Hye-won in the past, increasing the immersion in the play with his deep and complex emotional acting. The sight of her bursting into tears like a child, gasping for breath, brought tears to the viewers’ eyes.
Kim Min-ha, who has shown a wide range of acting with a character completely different from that of her hit period drama ‘Pachinko’, which received rave reviews from viewers and critics around the world, will meet audiences in her first leading role film, ‘Disclosure: The Child With Closed Eyes’, which will be released next year.

The film, which was officially invited and screened at the Busan International Film Festival last October and received favorable reviews early on, is a thriller that depicts a complex and tense case of a criminal and a detective who meet again after the death of a best-selling author. It is a thriller in which the more the murder case is uncovered, the more shocking truth is revealed. Kim Min-ha plays the role of In-seon, who is arrested at the scene on charges of murdering a best-selling author, and plays Min-ju, a detective who is investigating the case he committed and his friend of 20 years, along with Choi Hee-seo.



Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com