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DVD

Parasite = Gisaengchung

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (OSH, WSQ)

Languages

In Korean, with English subtitles.

Performers

Song Kang-Ho, Lee Sun-Kyun, Cho Yeo-Jeong, Choi Woo-Shik, Park So-Dam.

Publication Information

Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, [2020]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (132 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPAA rating: R; language, some violence and sexual content.

Summary

Meet the Park family, the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide "indispensable" luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims' newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2019.

Bonus feature: Q&A with director Bong Joon Ho.

Subjects