Round Six (2020)

INFO

• Title: Round Six
• Other Names: 오징어 게임; The Squid Game; Ojingeo geim; Cuttlefish Game; Squid Games
• Origin: South Korea
• Air date: December 2020

Synopsis

Round Six depicts a story of people who decide to become the players of a mysterious survival game that has a whopping 40-million-dollar prize at stake. Gi-hun, played by Lee Jung-jae, seems defeated by life after being fired from his job. He decides to join the survival game to win prize money. Sang-woo, played by Park Hae-soo, is Gi-hun’s childhood friend and he also joins the game as he gets in trouble at work despite all the hard work he has done to be where he is at now. The literal translation of Round Six’s Korean title is ‘Squid Game’ (오징어 게임), which is the street game Gi-hun and Sang-woo played together when they were young. It’s quite a physical game that only ends when there’s a final winner, much like the survival game they play now. It’s named as such because players are to draw different geometric shapes on the ground, which, as a whole, look like a squid.

ROLES

• Lee Jung Jae (이정재) as Ki Hun
• Heo Sung Tae (허성태) as Duk Su
• Park Hae Soo (박해수) as Sang Woo
• Wi Ha Joon (위하준) as Joon Ho
• Jung Ho Yeon (정호연) as Support Role
• Kim Joo Ryung (김주령) as Support Role
• Im Ki Hong (임기홍) as Support Role