The movie tells the story of a monster which emerges from Seoul’s Han River and focuses its attention on attacking people. When the monster snatches away a young girl, her entire family sets out to locate the beast and bring their little girl back home to safety.
In 1986, Park and Cho are two simple-minded detectives assigned to a double murder investigation in a South Korean province. When a third woman is found dead in the same ‘modus-operandi’, the detectives find leads of the assassin.
Set in 18th century Korea, long-ruling King Yeongjo’s struggle with his son, Sado, sees the king take extreme measures in order to deal with his heir. The King condemns Sado to death by locking him in a rice chest for eight days until he suffocates and starves.
A widowed father and taxi driver takes a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising.
All unemployed, Ki-taeks family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.