3/5 stars Ha Dongsoo (Jung Hae-in ) is a “connect”, a superhuman whose body can heal itself and, most impressively, reattach limbs and pieces when they are cut off. When that happens, be it a finger, a hand or even a whole arm, red cords pulse out from the host body and its severed elements, in search of each other,.
For the second time this year a major Japanese filmmaker has dipped his toes into the Korean market. Following in the footsteps of Hirokazu Kore-eda, who wowed the Cannes Film Festival with Broker this spring, Takashi Miike, the prolific genre filmmaker behind cult classics such as Audition and Ichi the Killer, has partnered with Disney+ for the six-part original Connect.