A woman gets kidnapped in the middle of the day and is tortured in a psychiatric hospital. A Journalist gets on the trace of the case and tries to find out the truth.
Acting
Kang Ye-won's unraveling is genuinely distressing to watch.
Direction
Lee Cheol-ha makes fluorescent-lit hallways feel like a grave.
Editing
Flashback structure that keeps you as disoriented as Su-a.
Director
Lee Cheol-ha
Kang Ye-won
Kang Su-a
Lee Sang-yun
Na Nam-su
Choi Jin-ho
Jang Hyung-sik
Ji Dae-han
Kang Byung-joo
Kim Jong-soo
Director Cha
Cheon Min-hui
Mi-ro
Lee Hak-ju
Dong-sik
Jang Tae-seong
Depeartment Head Gu
Yoo Gun
Woo-jin
Choi Youn-so
Ji-young
Jo Jae-yun
Detective Park
Kil Hae-yeon
Su-a's mother
Kim Han-jong
Balbari
Kim Won-jung
Section Cheif Kim
Park Se-jin
(uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
South Korea's real history of forced psychiatric institutionalization and 'social purification' campaigns informs the film's institutional horror.
Lee Cheol-ha reportedly based the asylum's layout on actual closed institutions, and Kang Ye-won spent nights on set alone to capture Su-a's isolation.
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