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My Daughter Is a Zombie

2025 · 114 min

A tender, funny, occasionally tense story about a father's stubborn love, mixing zombie thrills with warm family comedy and a lump-in-the-throat finish.

Directed by
Pil Gam-seong
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Cho Jung-seok, Lee Jung-eun, Cho Yeo-jeong
Tagline
My daughter is a zombie. The last remaining zombie in the world.
Overview
Jung-hwan is a gruff but loving zookeeper who specializes in training wild beasts. His teenage daughter, Soo-ah, is going through puberty and a full-blown dance obsession. Their days are full of bickering and bonding... until one day, Soo-ah becomes infected by a zombie virus that has swept across the globe. Refusing to give up on his daughter, Jung-hwan takes her to a quiet seaside village called Eunbong-ri, where his mother Bam-soon lives. In a world obsessed with rooting out the infected, Soo-ah shows strange signs of awareness - responding to music, her grandmother's sharp taps with a back scratcher, and even faint traces of human language. Determined to protect her at all costs, Jung-hwan draws on his years of experience training tigers and begins a secret mission to tame and retrain... his zombie daughter.

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Directed by
Pil Gam-seong
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Cho Jung-seok, Lee Jung-eun, Cho Yeo-jeong
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • parenthood
  • love
  • survival
  • identity
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror4
Humour6
Realism5
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Pil Gam-seong
Written by
Kim Hyun
Starring
Cho Jung-seok, Lee Jung-eun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Yoon Kyung-ho, Choi Yu-ri, Geumdong-i, Jeon Su-ji, Kim Beong-choun
Music
Kim Tae-seong
Cinematography
Kim Tae-soo
Runtime
114 min
Country
South Korea
Languages
Korean

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