Bong Joon-ho, The Host

South Korea's Bong Joon-ho broke local box-office records last year with his amazing monster movie The Host. Like Godzilla, Bong's mutant tadpole rises from the water - in this case Seoul's Han River - to raise havoc and eat people. At once an ecological disaster film, a family comedy and a thrilling rescue drama, The Host fulfills the promise Bong displayed in his very different real-life criminal investigation, Memories of a Murder, which is available here on DVD.

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