It's unusual for a new Disney Plus / Hulu show to sneak out without much in the way of hype, but that seems to be the case with A Shop For Killers. The Korean action thriller starts streaming this week on January 17 and yet the usual pre-streaming hype seems largely absent. And that's a shame, because going by the trailer it's set to be an action-packed epic with a really unusual premise.
A Shop For Killers is based on the novel The Killer's Shopping Mall, which is where the oddness comes from. Jeong Ji-an, one of two lead characters and played by Kim Hye-Jun, is an orphaned young woman who was raised by her uncle, played by Lee Dong-wook. When he dies in mysterious circumstances, Ji-an discovers that her uncle was secretly the Walmart of weaponry, selling heavy weapons to heavy people. Not only that, but those very same killers are now after his stock – and if getting those weapons means killing Ji-an, that's exactly what they intend to do.
