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Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho’s third feature film, The Host, is a monster blockbuster starring Song Kang-ho as Park Gang-du, the head of a dysfunctional family. The film begins with a US military doctor (Scott Wilson) ordering his assistant to illegally dump toxic chemicals down a drain that leads to the Han River. Several years later, a mutated monster emerges from the river to wreak havoc on Seoul. When the monster abducts his daughter, Gang-du and his squabbling family band together to rescue her. Equal parts creature feature, comedy, and political satire, The Host is a monumental melting pot garnished with spectacular visual effects and a grandiose soundtrack.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. 

2006 | 120 min | South Korea | Color | Korean | Rated R | 35mm

DIRECTED BY: Bong Joon Ho

WRITTEN BY: Bong Joon Ho, Ha Won-jun, Baek Chul-hyun

WITH: Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doona