The Ugly
The barefaced truth comes out.
One day while overseeing a documentary crew filming his blind father at work, Im Dong-hwan gets a phone call that his missing mother’s remains have been found after forty years.Determined to find the truth of her disappearance, Dong-hwan embarks on a twisted odyssey through his family’s traumatic past, uncovering dark secrets along the way.
- Director
- Yeon Sang-ho
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One day while overseeing a documentary crew filming his blind father at work, Im Dong-hwan gets a phone call that his missing mother’s remains have been found after forty years. Determined to find the truth of her disappearance, Dong-hwan embarks on a twisted odyssey through his family’s traumatic past, uncovering dark secrets along the way.
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- Release date
- Sep 11, 2025
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- MPAA rating
- NR
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- South Korea
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