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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.

20251h 42mNRMystery, Thriller

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About The Ugly

Directors
Yeon Sang-ho
Cast
Park Jeong-min, Kwon Hae-hyo, Han Ji-hyeon, Im Sung-jae, Shin Hyun-been, Kim Jae-rok
Genres
Mystery, Thriller
Content rating
NR
Original language
Korean
Production countries
South Korea
Status
Released

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