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Choi Min-sik went in with one image for his character: meat on a hook.

"I wanted to strip this man bare and hang him up like a slab of meat," he said of Heo Mun-oh, the failed novelist turned embittered literature professor at the center of "Notes from the Last Row." "He's a professor, an author.

But learning has nothing to do with character.

He's just a lump of desire." Released June 26 on Netflix, the six-part suspense drama from director Kim Gyu-tae adapts a Spanish play by Juan Mayorga.

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