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.

The Ugly (2025)

The barefaced truth comes out.

★ 6.9/10 September 11, 2025 102 min

MysteryThriller

Director: Yeon Sang-ho  ·  Writer: Yeon Sang-ho

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.

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Director

Yeon Sang-ho

Cast

Park Jeong-min Young Yeong-gyu / Im Dong-hwan Kwon Hae-hyo Im Yeong-gyu Han Ji-hyeon Kim Su-jin Im Sung-jae Young Ju-sang Shin Hyun-been Jung Young-hee Kim Jae-rok Baek Ju-sang Cha Mi-kyung Lee Jin-suk Joo Hae-eun Young Jin-suk Won Mi-won Eldest Aunt Park Myung-shin Younger Aunt Lee Hyun-kyun Man in His 40s Go Seo-hee Woman in Her 40s