Film

The Ugly

2025 · 1h 42m · Mystery · Thriller

The barefaced truth comes out.

IMDb

6.6

Rotten Tomatoes

56%

Metacritic

50

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.

Park Jeong-min

Im Dong-hwan / Young Im Yeong-gyu

Kwon Hae-hyo

Im Yeong-gyu

Han Ji-hyeon

Kim Su-jin

Im Sung-jae

Young Baek Ju-sang

Shin Hyun-been

Jung Young-hee

Kim Jae-rok

Baek Ju-sang

Cha Mi-kyeong

Lee Jin-suk

Joo Hae-eun

Young Lee Jin-suk

Won Mi-won

Aunt

Park Myung-shin

Aunt

Lee Hyun-kyun

40s man

Go Seo-hee

40s woman

Go Dong-eop

Old man 1

Hong Seok-bin

Old Man 2

Kim Hye-jung

Old woman

Lee Han-sol

Tailor

• Yeon Sang-hoDirector · Writer
• Jo Eun-hyeProducer
• Ahn So-heeProducer
• Yoomin Hailey YangExecutive Producer
• Pyo Sang-wooDirector of Photography
• Chae Min-juOriginal Music Composer
• Park Ju-aeEditor

Official Trailer [Subtitled]Teaser Trailer [Subtitled]

Release date

September 11, 2025

Status

Released

Original language

Korean

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

NR

Genres

Mystery, Thriller

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