The latest science fiction thriller from Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho, Jung_E is destined forever to be remembered for featuring the final screen performance by actress Kang Soo-yeon, who died in May 2022 after suffering a brain haemorrhage.

Ironically, the notion of preserving life, or least the human conscience, indefinitely via artificial intelligence is central to the film’s premise.

In the 22nd century, after apocalyptic climate change has driven much of the Earth’s population off-world, Kang’s character, Seohyun, works for a research institute that is tasked with developing robot soldiers to serve in an intergalactic civil war.

Read my full South China Morning Post review here