Half Man and Half Beast (1975) [N/A]

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Featuring:
Yeong-guk Yu, Hie Mun, Woon-ha Kim

Written by:
Yeong-sun Kwon

Directed by:
Ki Kim


Release Date:
May 23, 1975

Original Title:
반수반인

Alternate Titles:
Bansuban-in

Genres:
Horror

Production Companies:
Hanjin Enterprises Company

Production Countries:
South Korea

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 85

While studying wild ginseng, a botanist Choi Kwang-Ho goes to the mountain, believing that people in the southern part grow wild ginseng, living almost primitive lives a like half man and half beast and leading wolves like dogs. From that time, nothing has been heard. Thirty years later, Choi Ji-Wung finds out his father Choi Kwang-Ho, but thirty years isolated period makes Kwang-Ho leave forever the mundane world contaminated with pollution. With wolves and southern people, the father goes back to the mountain, and the son climbs down the mountain looking at his father's back.

A botonist working in the mountains disappears after beginning an investigation into the legend of the Beast People--semi-humans living deep in the mountain forests and running with wolves. Thirty years later, the botonist's son finds his father, but the older man is now very different.

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Rankings and Honors

Half Man and Half Beast (1975) on IMDb

Director:
Kim Ki

Writer:
Gwon Yeong-sun

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