Gang-du succeeds in escaping from where he is being held by taking a nurse hostage. The creature awakes and swallows Hyun-seo and Se-joo. When she thinks the creature is sleeping, Hyun-seo tries to escape from its lair using a rope she has made from old clothes. It is decided to lobotomize Gang-du to silence him. Gang-du overhears an American scientist say that there is no virus it was made up to distract people from the creature's origin. Unbeknownst to Nam-il, the friend has contacted the government so he can claim the bounty, but Nam-il is able to escape after obtaining Hyun-seo's location. Nam-il meets an old friend ( Yim Pil-sung) at an office building to ask for help and learns the government has placed a bounty on his family. Gang-du is captured by the Army and Nam-il and Nam-joo become separated from each other. The Parks encounter the creature and shoot at it until they run out of ammunition. Hyun-seo helps Se-joo hide inside a drain pipe where the creature cannot reach them. It returns to its sleeping area in the sewer and regurgitates them, but only Se-joo is alive. Two homeless boys, Se-jin and Se-joo, after raiding Hee-bong's snack bar for food, are attacked and swallowed by the creature. Gang-du and his family escape the hospital and purchase supplies from gangsters in order to search for Hyun-seo. She explains that she is trapped in the sewers with the creature, but her phone stops working. Gang-du receives a phone call from Hyun-seo. It is announced that the creature is the host of a deadly, unknown virus. After a mass funeral for the victims, government representatives and the American military arrive and quarantine people who had contact with the creature, including Gang-du and his family. Gang-du tries to grab his daughter from the crowd and run, but he realizes he has grabbed the wrong person's hand and sees the creature snatching away Hyun-seo and diving back into the river.
Other family members are Gang-du's daughter, Hyun-seo ( Go Ah-sung) his sister Nam-joo ( Bae Doona), a national medalist archer and his brother, Nam-il ( Park Hae-il), an alcoholic college graduate and former political activist.Ī huge creature (voiced by Oh Dal-su) emerges from the Han River and begins attacking people. In 2006, a slow-witted man named Park Gang-du ( Song Kang-ho) runs a small snack bar in a park near the river with his father, Hee-bong ( Byun Hee-bong). Over the next several years, there are sightings of a strange amphibious creature in the waterway, and the fish in the river die off. In 2000, an American military pathologist ( Scott Wilson) orders his Korean assistant to dump 200 bottles of formaldehyde down a drain leading into the Han River.
It won several awards including Best Film at the Asian Film Awards and at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. The film was released on a limited basis in the United States on March 9, 2007, and on DVD, Blu-ray, and HD DVD formats on July 24, 2007. By the end of its run on November 8, 13 million tickets had been sold, making it (at the time) the highest-grossing South Korean film of all time. It was released on a record number of screens in its home country on July 27, 2006. įollowing the success of the director's work Memories of Murder, The Host was highly anticipated. According to the director, his inspiration came from a local article about a deformed fish with an S-shaped spine caught in the Han River.
The film concerns a monster kidnapping a man's daughter, and his attempts to rescue her. "Monster") is a 2006 South Korean monster film directed by Bong Joon-ho and starring Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doona and Go Ah-sung.