Parasite Movie Details:
| Hangul | 기생충 |
| Hanja | 寄生蟲 |
| Revised Romanization | Gisaengchung |
| McCune–Reischauer | Song Kang-ho Lee Sun-kyun Cho Yeo-Jeong Choi Woo-shik Park So-dam Jang Hye-jin |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Genre | Comedy Drama Thriller |
| Release date | 21 May 2019 (Cannes) 30 May 2019 (South Korea) |
| Running time | 2hr 12min |
| Age rating | R |
| Starring | Song Kang-ho Lee Sun-Kyun Cho Yeo-Jeong Choi Woo-Shik Park So-dam Jang Hye-jin |
| Directed by | Bong Joon-ho |
| Screenplay by | Bong Joon-ho Han Jin-won |
| Story by | Bong Joon-ho |
| Produced by | Kwak Sin-ae Moon Yang-kwon Bong Joon-ho Jang Young-hwan |
| Cinematography by | Hong Kyung-pyo |
| Edited by | Yang Jin-mo |
| Music by | Jung Jae-il |
| Production Company | Barunson E&A |
| Distributor | CJ Entertainment |
Parasite Movie Cast & Characters:
- Song Kang-ho as Kim Ki-taek (Mr. Kim; 김기택; Gim Gitaek), the Kim family father who is hired as Park Dong-ik’s chauffeur
- Lee Sun-kyun as Park Dong-ik (Nathan; 박동익; Bak Dongik), the Park family father
- Cho Yeo-jeong as Choi Yeon-gyo (Madame; 최연교; Choe Yeongyo), the Park mother
- Choi Woo-shik as Kim Ki-woo (Kevin; 김기우; Gim Giu), the Kims’ son who is hired as Da-hye’s English tutor (Choi said the character is “intelligent but does not have the vigor needed to succeed in examinations”)
- Park So-dam as Kim Ki-jung (Jessica; 김기정; Gim Gijeong), the Kims’ daughter who is hired as Da-song’s art therapist
- Jang Hye-jin as Chung-sook (박충숙; Bak Chungsuk), the Kim family mother who is hired as the Parks’ housekeeper
- Lee Jung-eun as Gook Moon-gwang (국문광; Guk Mungwang), the Parks’ housekeeper, who also worked for the house’s architect and previous owner (Bong Joon-ho said her relationship with the architect and parts of her story “that happen in between the sequences in the film” will be explored in the spin-off TV series)[12]
- Park Myung-hoon as Oh Geun-sae (오근세; O Geunse), Moon-gwang’s husband
- Jung Ji-so as Park Da-hye (박다혜; Bak Dahye), the Parks’ daughter
- Jung Hyeon-jun as Park Da-song (박다송; Bak Dasong), the Parks’ son
- Park Keun-rok as Yoon (윤; Yun), Park Dong-ik’s chauffeur
- Park Seo-joon as Min-hyuk (민혁; Minhyeok), Ki-woo’s friend
- Jung Yi-seo as a pizza parlour owner
Storyline:
The film follows a poor family who scheme to become employed by a wealthy family and infiltrate their household by posing as unrelated, highly qualified individuals.
Parasite Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
| Budget | ₩17.0 billion (~$15.5 million) |
| Worldwide Collection | ₩350 billion (~$262.7 million) |
About Parasite Movie:
Principal photography for Parasite began on 18 May 2018 and ended 124 days later on 19 September 2018. Filming took place around Seoul and in Jeonju.
The Parks’ house, said in the film to be designed by a fictional architect named Namgoong Hyeonja, was a set completely built from scratch.
This is the fourth film on which director Bong Joon Ho and actor Song Kang-ho collaborated.
At the Munich Film Festival, Bong Joon Ho said that he does not like screenwriting, and that it makes him nervous and insufferable to his family. The idea for Parasite has existed since 2015, and the final script was written in three and a half months.
The third film to win both the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Picture, after The Lost Weekend (1945) and Marty (1955). Of the three films, only this and the latter won unanimously at Cannes.
Both families’ homes were built from scratch as Bong Joon-ho wanted “full control” of their living spaces. The street outside the opening window is all a facade constructed inside a large water tank.
The soundtrack was published and released in Korea, in digital and physical formats, by Genie Music and Stone Music Entertainment on 30 May 2019. Internationally, it was released on 11 October 2019 by Milan Records.
Nominated for six Academy Awards (2020). It won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature. It was also nominated for Best Film Editing and Best Production Design but did not win in those categories.
First South Korean film to be nominated and to win the Oscar for “Best International Film” (2020) which was also the first year the category was renamed from “Best Foreign Film”.
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.
Parasite was rated as the best film of 2019 and was ranked 7th among the films with the highest scores of the decade. As of 20 November 2021, it is the 48th highest-rated film of all time on the website. The film ranked first in a survey by IndieWire of over 300 critics, in the Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Foreign Film categories.
Parasite premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2019. The film was released in South Korea by CJ Entertainment on May 30, 2019, and received highly positive reviews from critics. It grossed over $263 million worldwide on a $15.5 million budget.
Neon acquired the US and Canadian rights to the film at the 2018 American Film Market. The film’s rights were also pre-sold to German-speaking territories (Koch Films), French-speaking territories (The Jokers), and Japan (Bitters End).
