Like many of cinema’s best historical black comedies, Good News is based on fact. The Korean film follows the real-life 1970 hijacking of a Japanese aircraft by young members of a militant political organization called Red Army Faction. But viewers looking for a straightforward thriller chronicling the international incident will not find it here. Director and co-writer Byun Sung-hyun signals his satirical interests early, skipping an intense look at the start of the attack and focusing on an earplug-donning passenger who sleeps through the initial proclamation. Air Force One , this very intentionally is not.

“All the films that deal with an event like this one, there's just so much detailed process of the hijacking part,” Byun tells TIME at the Busan International Film Festival ,

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