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The Wailing
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Na Hong-jin
Na Hong-jin
Casts & Crew
Kwak Do-won
Hwang Jung-min
Chun Woo-hee
Jun Kunimura
Kim Hwan-hee
Heo Jin
Jang So-yeon
Jo Han-chul
Son Kang-gook
Park Sung-yeon
Kim Do-yoon
Bae Yong-geun
Kim Ki-chun
Yoo Soon-woong
Lee Yong-nyeo
Hwang Seok-jeong
Moon Chang-gil
Lee Jung-eun
Jeon Bae-soo
Song Min-seok
Also Directed by Na Hong-jin
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
The region where the borders of North Korea, China, and Russia come together, forms a sort of modern day wild west, where more than half of the population relies on illegal activity in order to survive. In Yanbian, on the Chinese side of the border, Gu-nam wiles away his days driving a cab and spends his nights getting drunk and gambling. His wife went to Seoul to work and send back money, but it’s been months since he has heard from her. When local crime lord Myun offers to erase Gu-nam’s debts in exchange for a contract killing in Seoul, Gu-nam reluctantly accepts.
A beautiful piece of aesthetic work with sweat as a thread. But no one sweats for the same reasons. This ode to sweat, in slow-motion shots with a rhytmic musical accompaniment, presents the daily cycle of a man (and a woman), which is at a certain level also a cycle of life.
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