Title: Parasite
Original Title: Gisaengchung
Year: 2019
Info
- Country: South Korea
- Length: 132 Minutes (2 hours 12 min)
- Budget: $11,436,000
- Genre: Drama Thriller
- Studios: Barunson E&A TMS Entertaiment
- Distributor: La Aventura Audiovisual
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: February 07 2020
- United States: October 11 2019
Plot
The Kim family struggles every day to maintain themselves, as the father, Ki-taek, and every other member of the family, does not have a job. Everything changes for them when they meet the Park, a wealthy family that the Kim will take advantage of when they begin working for them after they son gets a recommendation to start working as an English teacher for the family. A symbiotic relationship will start to develop in which the Kim will offer the Park the services they can't live without, while the Park will allow the Kim to maintain their life style. However, nothing is this simple, and what appeared to be a simple story will affect everyone involved with no option to go back, and this relationship will be at risk when an unexpected incident threatens to end the Kim's new life style. Film directed by Joon-ho Bong ('Mother', 'The Host', 'Okja') and starring Kang-ho Song ('The Age of Shadows'), Sun-kyun Lee ('Night and Day') and Choi Woo-shik ('Okja', 'Train to Busan').
'Parasite' was the first Korean movie to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and has become one of the biggest films to be released this year, getting praise for both film critics and the audiences everywhere it goes. This different comedy is also the film selected to represent South Korea at the 2020 Oscar Awards for Best International Film.
Awards
- 2020 Academy Awards (Oscars): 6 4
- 2020 Golden Globes: 3 1
- 2020 BAFTA Awards: 4 2
Cast
Director:
Geun Se
Ki-taek
Mr. Park
Yeon-kyo
Ki-woo
Kim Ki-jung
Moon-gwang
Videos
June 5 2019
Photos
Trivia
Cast choice
Director Bong Joon-ho chose the actors Song Kang-ho and Choi Woo-shik before any other member in the cast and while he was still writing the script.
Visual Effects
The iconic Park and Kim family homes were designed and created from scratch on massive stages in Korea. Over 1,400 VFX were used to bring these environments to life and over 130,000 gallons of water were used to flood the Kims' home.
Ki-woo's job
Ki-woo's job, at-home tutor, was chosen because director realized that sadly the job is the only way that families from two extreme end of the class spectrum in modern day South Korea can cross their paths convincingly in the story arc.
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