What if the person wearing your son's face... isn't your son anymore?
Chuan, a quiet 30-year-old man working as a chef in a Japanese restaurant, collapses suddenly and is rushed to a hospital. His colleagues send him to his father, who resides in the mountains. While there, Chuan becomes immobile: he won’t speak, eat or even go to the toilet on his own. One day his father returns from work only to find Chuan sitting in the corner with his daughter lying dead in a pool of blood. In an unfamiliar, eerily calm voice, Chuan says, “I saw this body was empty, so I moved in.
Acting
Joseph Chang's body language shift is genuinely chilling.
Cinematography
Mountain fog becomes another character—oppressive, gorgeous, wrong.
Direction
Chung Mong-hong frames domestic spaces like crime scenes.
Director
Chung Mong-hong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jimmy Wang Yu was a legendary 1960s martial arts star; this was his dramatic comeback after decades away from cinema.
Chung Mong-hong's background in photography explains those suffocating static compositions—every frame a potential evidence photo.
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