Squid Games (2021)

Also Known As: 오징어 게임 魷魚遊戲 鱿鱼游戏 イカゲーム Ojingeo Geim The Squid Game Round Six Cuttlefish Game Шестой раунд لعبة الحبار

Director: Hwang Dong Hyeok [황동혁]

Original Network: Netflix;

Country: Korean

Genres: Action, Adventure, Childhood, Drama, Mystery, Survival, Thriller, Web Series

Status: Completed

Date aired: 2021

Summary:

Round Six depicts a story of people who decide to become the players of a mysterious survival game that has a whopping 40-million-dollar prize at stake. Gi-hun, played by Lee Jung-jae, seems defeated by life after being fired from his job. He decides to join the survival game to win prize money. Sang-woo, played by Park Hae-soo, is Gi-hun’s childhood friend and he also joins the game as he gets in trouble at work despite all the hard work he has done to be where he is at now.

The literal translation of Round Six’s Korean title is ‘Squid Game’ (오징어 게임), which is the street game Gi-hun and Sang-woo played together when they were young. It’s quite a physical game that only ends when there’s a final winner, much like the survival game they play now. It’s named as such because players are to draw different geometric shapes on the ground, which, as a whole, look like a squid.