Hoezo in KINO

When Bong Joon Ho discussed choosing a monster movie as his third film after the critical acclaim of Memories of Murder, many friends and colleagues advised against it. Luckily this only strengthened Bong’s resolve to build a creature feature around an actual incident of Seoul’s Han River being polluted by chemical waste originating from an American military base. The result is the tale of a huge mutant fish goblin terrorizing the banks of the Han river and a working class family having to take matters into their own hands to retrieve one of their own taken by the monster as the government bungles its response. The Host was a huge hit in Korea and then the highest grossing film of all time (now #7). We’re only allowed to screen the film twice so don’t miss out! Korean language with English subtitles.