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Gisaengchung (2019)

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All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Director:

Joon-ho Bong

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Joon-ho Bong (screenplay) (as Bong Joon-ho), Jin Won Han (screenplay)
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Cast

Credited cast:
Kang-ho Song ... Kim Ki-taek
Yeo-jeong Jo ... Park Yeon-kyo
So-dam Park ... Kim Ki-jung
Woo-sik Choi ... Kim Ki-woo
Sun-kyun Lee ... Park Dong-ik
Seo-joon Park ... Min
Ji-so Jung ... Park Da-hye (as Jung Ziso)
Hye-jin Jang ... Kim Chung-sook (as Hyae Jin Chang)
Jeong-eun Lee ... Moon-gwang
Andreas Fronk ... German Father
Ji-hye Lee ... Singer
Hyun-jun Jung ... Park Da-song
Myeong-hoon Park ... Geun-se
Joo-hyung Lee ... Party Guy 3
Ik-han Jung ... Neighbor
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Storyline

Jobless, penniless, and, above all, hopeless, the unmotivated patriarch, Ki-taek, and his equally unambitious family--his supportive wife, Chung-sook; his cynical twentysomething daughter, Ki-jung, and his college-age son, Ki-woo--occupy themselves by working for peanuts in their squalid basement-level apartment. Then, by sheer luck, a lucrative business proposition will pave the way for an insidiously subtle scheme, as Ki-woo summons up the courage to pose as an English tutor for the teenage daughter of the affluent Park family. Now, the stage seems set for an unceasing winner-take-all class war. How does one get rid of a parasite? Written by Nick Riganas

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Misplaced familyhood (Australia/New Zealand/Singapore) See more »

Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Thriller

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Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Release Date:

15 August 2019 (Israel) See more »

Also Known As:

Parazitim See more »

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Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$91,013,953
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Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos

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Color

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2.39:1
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Trivia

Director Bong chose his long time collaborator Song and Choi woo-sik, who was in Bong's last film "Okja", before picking any other actors of the movie while writing the script. See more »

Quotes

Chung-sook, Ki-taek's wife: If I had all this I would be kinder.
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Rodelinda
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Weirdly brilliant film from Mr. Bong
19 August 2019 | by sandeepventrapragada98 – See all my reviews

Well written and performed also technically shines cinematography & bgm are too good and there's not even a single lag it's perfectly edited. Probably the best experience in recent times. I'd like to say Korean films sounds much better than any other film industries in nowadays, of course cinema has no language barriers but the emotions they project are just insanely exceptional. If you like comedy/trauma thrillers then you shouldn't miss Mr. Bong joon-ho's Parasite.


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