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A phone call turns The Host’s river attack into a father’s search for his daughter

The Host’s five central family cast members sit together around a table inside a stocked shop.

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Bong Joon-ho’s film brings a missing child and a restricted riverbank into the same rescue problem.

The call changes what Gang-du believes has happened to his daughter. After a creature takes Hyun-seo from the Han River bank, she contacts him by phone. She is still alive, and the father who feared her dead now has a reason to search. Magnolia Pictures’ official synopsis and credits.

The Host’s five central family cast members sit together around a table inside a stocked shop.
Park Hae-il, Bae Doo-na, Ko A-sung, Song Kang-ho, and Byun Hee-bong in The Host (4K rerelease), a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. Image source.

In The Host, the attack interrupts a familiar workplace: Gang-du runs a food stand beside the river. The creature’s emergence transforms that everyday setting into a danger zone. The authorities identify it as the possible carrier of an unknown virus, making the area where he needs to look a restricted one.

Hyun-seo and Gang-du smile while seated together; she holds a phone and he holds a cup of noodles.
Ko A-sung and Song Kang-ho in The Host (4K rerelease), a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. Image source.

That creates two linked obstacles in Magnolia Pictures’ synopsis. Gang-du must find Hyun-seo, played by Ko A-sung, while gaining access to the place where the creature has taken her. Song Kang-ho plays Gang-du; the cast also includes Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, and Bae Doo-na.

Bae Doo-na’s character, carrying equipment on her back, looks around in a dim concrete passage.
Bae Doo-na in The Host (4K rerelease), a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. Image source.

Bong Joon-ho directed and shares screenplay credit with Hah Joon-won and Baek Chul-hyun. Magnolia’s 4K rerelease materials return to this family-centered premise: the monster attack is also the beginning of a search. Magnolia Pictures’ official synopsis and credits. Magnolia’s 4K rerelease press materials.

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