Some Detective

Our honest opinion — and the kind of viewer who’ll love it most.

The title does the first bit of work. A film called Some Detective that follows a novelist stuck on her first detective book is already telling you the mystery is a pretext. The most useful reference point on this site is Broker, another film about a loose group of people whose journey keeps pulling them somewhere other than where they set out to go, though this one looks far smaller and quieter.

Director Kim Mi-young is not a stranger to Busan: her earlier film A Lonely Island in the Distant Sea won the DGK Megabox Award there in 2023, and this one arrived with post-production support from the festival’s Asian Cinema Fund. That track record is the reason it is on our radar. We have not seen the film, so this page sticks to what is confirmed about its setup and will gain a proper story and ending breakdown once reliable sources exist. Viewers who liked the moral drift of Possible Love are the likeliest audience.

For now this is an anticipation pick, not a review. The cast is small and mostly new to us, the stills are in black and white, and the premise promises encounters rather than plot twists. Whether it earns its wandering is something only wider screenings will show.