The Host
- Original title
- Gwoemul (The Host)
- Year
- 2006
- Running time
- 119 min.
- Country
South Korea
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Song Kang-ho
- Byeon Hie-bong
- Park Hae-Il
- Bae Doona
- Ko Ah-sung
- Lee Dong-ho
- Lee Jae-eung
- Yoon Je-Moon
- Kim Roi-ha
- Park No-Sik
- Yim Pil-sung
- Scott Wilson
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production South Korea-Japan;
- Genre
- Fantasy. Horror. Sci-Fi. Thriller | Monsters. Kaiju
- Synopsis
- Hee-bong (Byun Hee-bong) is the owner of a small food stand in the Han River Citizen's Park, selling squid, candy and beer to people who have come out to enjoy the sun. Gang-du (Song Kang-ho) is one of his three children, a man who seems a bit slow mentally and whose one motivating strength is a devotion to his schoolage daughter Hyun-seo (Ko Ah-sung). Rounding out the family is Nam-joo (Bae Doona), an amateur competitive archer and her brother Nam-il (Park Hae-il), a former student radical who at present is drunk and unemployed. There are no mothers in the family -- Hee-bong's wife having passed on and Gang-du's having run away. It's a dysfunctional group, held together only by the crisis that faces them, and yet the family dynamics will feel familiar to many viewers.
It is when the creature snatches the young Hyun-seo that the family becomes aligned against this unknown biological threat.-
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2006: Sitges Fantasy Film Festival: Best Special Effects2006: Blue Dragon Film Awards (South Korea): 5 awards. 10 nominations2006: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): 2 nominations2008: Asian Film Awards: Best Film.
- Critics' reviews
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"[It] is the defining monster movie of the 21st century (...) Bong Joon-ho's monster-sized masterpiece feels more relevant than ever because of its emphasis on the sheer brazenness of evil."
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It became the #1 Top grossing film at the domestic South Korean box office.
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 13 My Favorite Korean Movies (127)
- 24 My Top 10 Movies from 2006 (125)
- 34 My Favorite Asian Movies (123)
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