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Movie title:
The Host [??] (Goi-mool)
Starring:
Song Kang-ho (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Memories of Murder), Byeon Hee-bong ("My Girl", Crying Fist), Park Hae-il (Rules of Dating, Memories of Murder), Bae Doona ("Someday", Linda, Linda, Linda), Ko Ah-seong ("Beating Heart", "Sad Love Story")
Directed by:
Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, Barking Dogs Never Bite)
Written by:
Baek Cheol-hyeon, Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, Barking Dogs Never Bite), Ha Joon-won, Joo-byeol
Genre:
Action Horror Comedy
Year:
2006
Runtime:
119 min.
Synopsis
The year 2000 an American coroner orders his underling to dump unwanted bottles of formaldehyde down the drain, assuming that the Han River, where it will ultimately end up, is big enough and wide enough to handle the poison
The year 2002 two fisherman spot a mutated fish in the river. "How many tails does it have?"
The year 2006 a business man suicides off a bridge into the river. Immediately before he leaps, he spies something dark and mysterious in the water below. When his coworkers don't see it, he tells them "Morons to the very end. Have a nice life."
Really, really soon Park Hee-bong runs a snack stand by the river and keeps an eye on his mentally disabled son Gang-du. Gang-du can usually be found either sleeping, stealing bites of their customers' food, or hoarding small change to buy his daughter Hyun-seo a decent cell phone. Hyun-seo is a typical junior high student, embarrassed by her father and by her drunken, unemployed college graduate uncle Nam-il. Rounding out the family is aunt Nam-joo, an otherwise excellent professional archer who always chokes at the last second. Simply put, they're really not doing very well, but it could be worse. The Park family is having a typical afternoon until a huge fish-like creature leaps out of the Han River and goes on a rampage. It chomps on a few people, swallows some whole, and snags Hyun-seo before diving back into its polluted home.
What was that about things could be worse?
The US military announces they have discovered that this creature is host to an unknown virus. The Korean government responds by quarantining everyone who came into contact with the beast, restricting access to the river, and sending in disinfectant trucks to spray the area night and day. Stuck in the hospital and told they are going to run tests on him, no one is more surprised than Gang-du when in the middle of the night he receives a call from his daughter. Rather than outright devouring the girl, the goi-mool (for lack of another name) has trapped her in a deep sewer where she has managed to evade it by climbing into a pipe. Unfortunately, the police and hospital staff conclude that Gang-du is delusional, possibly already suffering symptoms of the mysterious virus that the monster carries, and won't even check his cell phone records. It's up to the Park family to rescue their youngest. That is, if they can break out of quarantine and manage to figure out exactly where the mutant has her stashed!