The Quiet Family
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Original Korean poster
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| Hangul | |
| Hanja | 조용한 |
| Revised Romanization | Joyonghan Gajok |
| McCune–Reischauer | Choyonghan Kajok |
| Directed by | Kim Jee-woon |
| Produced by | Lee Eun |
| Written by | Kim Jee-woon |
| Starring |
Park In-hwan Na Moon-hee Choi Min-sik Song Kang-ho Go Ho-kyung Lee Yoon-seong |
| Music by |
Jo Yeong-wook Jeon Sang-yoon |
| Cinematography | Jeong Kwang-seok |
| Edited by | Ko Im-pyo |
| Distributed by | Myung Films |
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Running time
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99 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
The Quiet Family (Hangul: 조용한 가족; RR: Joyonghan Gajok) is a 1998 South Korean comedy horror film. It was director Kim Jee-woon's feature film debut. The story centers on a family who owns a hunting lodge in a remote area, whose customers always happen to end up dying. Among the film's main cast are pre-stardom Choi Min-sik and Song Kang-ho.
The film was loosely remade as The Happiness of the Katakuris by Takashi Miike.
An extended family has moved from the city (presumably Seoul) to live in a large house out in the mountains, which they convert into a lodge for hikers. Consisting of a middle aged father Kang Dae-goo (Park In-hwan), mother Jeong Soon-rye (Na Moon-hee), Dae-goo's younger brother Kang Chang-goo (Choi Min-sik), and their adult children Kang Young-min (Song Kang-ho), Kang Mi-soo (Lee Yoon-seong) and Kang Mina (Go Ho-kyung) they suffer a string of misfortunes as various patrons come to stay.
Their first guest, a hiker, asks for a room and three beers. Left to himself, he spends the night forging his room key holder to be sharp enough to stab himself and is found dead the next morning. The father of the family decides on burying the body in the woods, under the assumption that no one would believe this to be a suicide. Later, a young couple drops in for a stay to have sex in the privacy of their room and end up dead together the next morning. A pair of friends from town stop by for drinks until one of the men falls for Mi-soo and subsequently attempts to rape her, but she is saved by Young-min, who accidentally ends up pushing the man off a cliff, while his friend is taken captive by the family to prevent him from calling the police.
Mr. Park, the benefactor of the family (providing them the house) later asks for their lodging for his younger (and illegitimate) half sister to have a hitman check into the neighboring room at midnight and murder her so he can be the only successor to the claim inheritance of the soon profitable land. Uninformed of the plan, Uncle Kang senses foul play and sends the half sister home to Seoul when she is found to be restless. The plan goes further awry when the hitman arrives fifteen minutes late, and the room had been taken by an undercover cop investigating the recent string of missing people, mistaken to be the hitman. The hitman thus ends up killing the cop instead, and is later killed by a suspicious Young-min.
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