Hi-Five

An organ donor's body crumbles to ash moments after the surgeons finish with it, and the five people who got his organs start to notice something strange. That's the setup of 'Hi-Five', a superhero comedy written and directed by Kang Hyeong-cheol, who made 'Sunny' and 'Swing Kids'. It was shot in 2021, but its release was frozen when Yoo Ah-in, the star of 'Burning' and one of its five heroes, was caught up in a drugs scandal in 2023, and it only came out almost four years after filming wrapped.

Wan-seo (Lee Jae-in), a teenager who lives for taekwondo, gets a new heart and suddenly has strength and speed nobody can explain. Ji-sung (Ahn Jae-hong), a screenwriter still waiting for his first credit, can blow like a gale with his new lungs. Seon-nyeo (Ra Mi-ran) delivers yoghurt and has no idea what her power is.

Then there's Yak-seon (Kim Hee-won), a grumpy foreman whose hands heal wounds, and Gi-dong (Yoo Ah-in), out of work and able to control electromagnetic waves since his cornea transplant. They aren't the only ones, though. The leader of a cult got the donor's pancreas, and he wants their powers for himself.

Oh Jung-se plays Wan-seo's overprotective dad, and the villain is played by Shin Goo and Park Jin-young, Jinyoung of GOT7. Yoo stayed in the final cut but took no part in the promotion. It still opened at number one in South Korea on 30 May 2025, and at the Blue Dragon Awards it won best editing, with nominations for Lee Jae-in as best actress and Jinyoung as best new actor.

It reached US cinemas on 20 June 2025 and took the silver audience award for best Asian feature at Montreal's Fantasia festival. Critics writing in English mostly enjoyed it, and one likened it more to 'Kung Fu Hustle' than to Marvel, though a few found the finale its weakest stretch.

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