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Influenza

Influenza

2004Short⏱️ 30m
Short
6.6
IMDB Rating
436 votes

Bong's disturbingly humorous mockumentary traces the downward spiral of an unemployed 31 year-old man as he is captured on Seoul's omnipresent CCTVs and observation cameras.

Director
Bong Joon Ho
Writers
N/A
Stars
Yun Je-mun, Go Su-hee
Language
Korean
Country
South Korea
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🎭 Top Cast

Yun Je-mun
Yun Je-mun
as Cho Hyuk-rae
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Go Su-hee
as Woman

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Color
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🏷️ Keywords

mockumentary

🎯 Categories

KoreanShort

⭐ Featured Review

Holy mackerel, Bong!
by Quinoa19842025-04-05
9/10

"Classifying Influenza as a horror film, now that I ponder on it, makes the most sense. It's not about necessarily any character build up because Bong Joon-Ho knows there isn't time for that in his manifestation of the randomness and bizarre state of how murder and crimes happen in the world. There is no explanation sometimes for why someone will just go berserk and just start pummeling another person on the street, though here there is the fact that the man who we see on this downward trajectory us joined by a woman who is equally cuckoo for cocoa-puffs early on, and his film is jus..."

📖 Synopsis

Bong's disturbingly humorous mockumentary traces the downward spiral of an unemployed 31 year-old man as he is captured on Seoul's omnipresent CCTVs and observation cameras.