Arang (2006)

[bunniefuu]

Did you hear what happened
at the salt house?

This girl was passing by it
at night last week.

It must be the rain!

It sure feels spooky.

What's the big deal
about skipping a class?

I can't believe
he kept us this late.

Perverts and flashers
are night owls.

If anything happens,
it's his fault!

What if one jumps on us?

Don't jinx it!
We'd be better off with a ghost.

The thought disgusts me.

Look at her.

What are you doing here?

Where's your mommy?

Jackstones?

You're missing one.

She saw a ghost
and passed out.

You Have New Mail

You're invited to Salt Village
10 years back in time.

Welcome to Minjung's Salt Village.

Arang

Song Yoonah

Lee Dongwook

Hello?

What?

Excuse me.

You came here.

Hi.

- Hey there.
- Hi.

- Happy to be back on the job?
- Sooner than I expected.

Come on!

I'm sorry.

Sorry!

Who's that kid?

A new addition to our team.

He volunteered from Forensics.

He's as green as a leaf.

From Forensics?
Why?

Ask him.
He's your new partner.

What?

- Kid, is it loaded?
- Huh?

The cause of death?

Not sure yet.
My guess is suffocation.

We won't be certain
until the autopsy.

Okay.

Look, don't miss any spots.

Sure.

What's that?

A dog was found dead.
They're burying it.

Song Jungho, 29.

Firemen found him
after they doused the fire.

Thank God it rained.

- You made it!
- Thank you for coming.

Say hi to my parents.

- Hi!
- Hello!

- Thank you.
- Congratulations!

He's manly, confident,
and trustworthy, Cute, too!

How do I look?

Subin, I'm so lucky to marry you.

We'll be happy together
until our last moments.

I love you!

Okay.
That was pretty good.

There you are.

Kim Dongmin!

Hey, buddy.

You're finally doing her!

Crazy a*s!

You look tired, dude.

I didn't sleep a wink,
sh**ting a music video.

Not wild sex?

- Come on.
- Not everybody is like you.

It's time.

- Don't mess up, okay?
- Don't worry.

A new jacket?
It's not your wedding!

The bride will walk
down the aisle.

Bride, please.

It'd been empty for years.

And he moved in last year.

Any visitors recently?

Some every now and then.

Their visit often led
to a huge fight.

Screaming and all that.

Oh, I heard he'd been
seeing a shrink.

Look here.
One, two, three!

Here we go again.
Look here!

One, two, three!

One more time.
One, two, three!

There's something fishy
about the victim.

It doesn't feel right.

- He did 8 years for m*rder
- He did 8 years for m*rder

and never had a job.

- Nothing whatever has been heard of him.

- His mother has small snack bar.
- How could he afford such a big house?

- How did he bought a house?
- We are tracing his bank account.

Tell me about the m*rder.

He went to this village
with his buddies on holiday...

...and got into a fight
with local punks.

- m*rder by accident?
- Right.

- So we are going through it.
- m*rder by accident?

- So it's a personal revenge?
- I should meet the headshrinker first.

- We should dig into it.
- Investgate about the moment when he died.

How's your new partner?

- He has a big mouth.
- Does he?

Don't give him a hard time.

He's a nice kid.

We'll see about that.
Okay.

Wait up!

He suffered from nightmares.

Seeing things
even after he woke up.

He said someone was
torturing him.

Who was?

A woman dressed in black
with long, disheveled hair.

Sounds like a ghost to me.

Or maybe not?

I don't know about that.

But if it's that simple,
people like us won't be needed.

We treat people,
not ghost.

This is what he drew
under hypnosis.

- What's this?
- A woman and a child.

It resembles Schiele's work,
'Dead Mother'.

He had guilt about letting
his mother die alone.

Dead Mother...

- You were in Forensics?
- Yes.

Isn't it better than Homicide?

No way.

Spending a year in the lab...

I was bombarded with
dead bodies.

That's far from GOOD.

Looking at dead people,
I felt sorry.

Then I got pissed off.

Why do they k*ll?
For what purpose?

I wanted to nail them
with my own hands.

So I could ask them
why they did it.

How could one k*ll another?

Why'd you become a cop?

That was sudden.
Why ask such a thing?

It isn't an easy decision
for a girl to be a cop.

What? Why not?

I was just curious.

I wanted to find someone.

Who?
Your first love?

Who becomes a cop
to find a first love?

I know one.

Who?

Me!

Don't be silly.

There was someone
I wanted to k*ll.

You sure you're okay?

I'm okay.
How about you?

Me? Can't you see?
Good!

- You drank quite a bit.
- I didn't really...

Worried about me
because I'm a girl?

That's sweet.

Don't worry.
I can put up a good fight.

Good night!

Okay, good night.

One, two, three!

Look here.
One, two, three!

You Have New Mail.

I got you some coffee.

Thanks.

Had a good chat
with Soyoung last night?

Yeah.

She seems to be a tomboy,
but very sharp.

You'll learn a lot.

I think so, too.

Captain?
Let me ask you something.

Why was she suspended
before I came?

She didn't tell you last night?

Why didn't you ask her?

Then again, it's not
something to brag about.

What happened was...

I'm innocent.

This b*tch is a gold digger.

I don't even know him!

You heard her.
She doesn't know you.

You were wasted lying
on the street...

...waiting to be f*cked.

Hey!
Who says you can r*pe a girl

drunk on the street?

No, I didn't r*pe her.

I got her a room with my money
so she could rest.

You know how it works.

Excuse me.

A scar?
No, I already checked.

Sorry.

She could've frozen to death.

You should be thankful
instead of...

Soyoung!

- Stop it, Soyoung!
- What the hell!

Okay, okay.

Come here!

- Come here!
- Okay, just a sec.

We had a hard time
fixing the mess.

- What scar?
- Yes.

She always checks the wrists
of male suspects.

A little bird told me
she's looking for someone.

You guys are early.

- What's going on?
- Nothing.

Captain!

He was found like that.

- You two,
- Yes.

- Search other rooms. See what you find.
- Okay.

Tell me.

The estimated time of death
is 10 last night.

Anything unusual?

No, a heart attack got him.

Huh?

Captain, check it out.

It was in the other room.

Jungho?

- Jungho!
- Song Jungho!

Where the hell is he?

We talked him
into turning himself in.

Actually...

We were told
you guys often fought.

That's true.

He was so moody
after getting out of jail.

About his mother's death
and lost time.

He was depressed.

We tried to give him
some advice.

But he took it personally.

Sometimes it got ugly,
as if we were fighting.

I see.

Thanks for your time.

Let's go.

I've never seen anything
like this before.

Both died from suffocation.

Poor boys.

He died before the fire.

And you know what?

He was exposed
to prussic acid gas.

What?

So was the other one.

This one burnt so much.

It was hard.

So he died from that gas,
not a heart attack?

Right. You must know.

An exposure to a lethal gas
leads to a heart attack.

Come on.

I don't understand
this mark on the neck.

He was strangled to death
simultaneously?

I don't get it.

And here's what's really odd.

Check out his mouth and nose.

No vesicant inflammation.

What's that?

When a lethal gas is inhaled,
blisters foam.

But not for these two.

It wasn't inhaled.

Then?

It was produced inside.

Has this happened before?

Never.

Is it possible?

Not sure.

You Have New Mail

It's almost the same M. O.

What's that?

The victim's palm pilot.

Welcome to Minjung's Salt Village

This is the website found
at the two m*rder scenes?

Yes.

It's a salt house.

Is it?

I didn't know what it was.

I lived by the saltern
when I was younger.

- Let me have a look.
- Sure.

Quite pretty.

Looks like a high school girl.
She must be popular.

It's a painting.
Mother and Daughter?

Is that a person?
She's alone.

Mother and Daughter?

Hey, Hyunki.
Did you find out?

Yes, but it's weird.

The owner of that website
went missing 9 years ago.

What?

Nothing useful on the site.

Okay, I'll check it out here.

She must've run for a big city.

It happens a lot here.

And my boss took the
caseback then back then.

He did?

Can I talk to him?

That would be me.
What's this regarding?

She's a cop from Seoul.

Hi.

I'm looking for Kim Minjung
who went missing 9 years ago.

- Kim Minjung?
- Yes.

Oh, Kim Minjung.

I don't remember much
about it.

I remember feeling sorry
for the family.

A lot of fathers here die

or go missing out in the sea.

But it was like a curse
for her family.

Her mom had run away,
and dad died in the sea.

So she lived alone
with her grandma.

Soon after she disappeared,
the grandma died.

The whole family was gone
just like that.

Who are you?

We were friends from high school.

She was such an artist.

She was dating this guy
named Juno.

He was there for her
when her dad died.

They were good together.

It's a shame.
If it hadn't happened...

What happened?

You didn't know?
Juno got m*rder*d.

That summer...

He got into a fight
with boys from Seoul.

One of them was from here.

Name's Song Jungho.

He k*lled Juno.

Song Jungho k*lled
Minjung's boyfriend?

Right.

She had a hard time
coping with it.

No, she became weird.

She stopped smiling
and stayed away from people.

Then she disappeared.

A rumor had it...

she might've k*lled herself.

Suicide?

Yes.

But she was Catholic.

Very pious.

It was so hard to believe
she k*lled herself.

She painted when she had troubles.
To soothe herself.

Only if I could see her again...

You haven't seen her
all these years?

She confessed, didn't she?

Please.

I'm sorry.
It's against my vows.

And what I know won't
be much help.

That's all I have to say.

Bye.

Hold on, girls.
Look.

Where's this salt house?

What?

Why?

I'm looking for someone
connected to this place.

What's the matter?

That place is haunted.

This girl saw a ghost there
and passed out.

She thought
she was with this friend...

who actually was home
that night.

Now she's at a nuthouse.

It's true.

- Bye.
- Good day.

We found outthat you and your friends
wired money to Jungho.

What he did was awful.

But we were there, too.
We wanted to help him out.

But it was a lot,
enough to buy a house.

With all due respect,
that's not a lot for us.

This is the poison
that k*lled Mozart, right?

The Aquatophania?

Oh, that book.

I wrote a thesis on poison
treatment in med school.

It earned me a doctorate.

And that thesis
was published recently.

I see.

Did you know
he'd been seeing a shrink?

He had?
I didn't know.

Hadn't he told you about
a woman dressed in black?

A woman dressed in black?

I don't think so.

Your patient is here.

- Send him in.
- Okay.

You'll have to excuse me.

Sure.

- Let's go.
- Okay.

How are you?

I feel like I'm dying.

Physician/ Kim Dong-min
A chronic digestive disorder is...

Doesn't it smell?

All the victims got poisoned
pretty much.

I don't know.

If he's our guy,
what would be the motive?

What if he was blackmailed?

Blackmailed...

It's possible.

Yet, it doesn't explain
for the other two victims.

That's true.

That m*rder 10 years ago.
It holds the key to these killings.

Why asked about a woman
dressed in black?

I heard a strange rumor
about Salt Village.

What rumor?

The village is haunted.

And the ghost is in the salt house
on Minjung's website.

So she became a ghost,
k*lling people?

What bothers me is
how such a rumor started.

My gut feeling tells me...

It must be an old grudge.

Yeah. Wish I were a ghost.

So I could read people's minds.

And truth hidden inside.

Truth hidden inside?
That's...

A dog was found dead.
They're burying it.

- Turn the car around.
- Why?

We're going somewhere.

- Got a jackknife?
- Yeah.

Give it here.

Found something?

What's this?

Looks like a 6mm tape
without the casing.

Good job.

Come in!

Car Wash Course/2 Shampoo

What we need is a girl!

Bottom's up!

Look at Dongmin!

What are you doing?

You Have New Mail

What's wrong?
You sick?

I'm worried.

You've been acting weird.

I just have a lot on my mind.
Don't worry. I'll be fine.

You sure you told them?

I said I did!

Okay, fine.
No need to yell at me.

We had to cut
our honeymoon short.

Think of this
as our second honeymoon.

Okay.

So cool.
I'd like to see the ocean.

Should we go to the sea?

I know you hate it.
Go where we're going.

We have to wait around
for a search warrant?

Stop being impatient.
It hasn't been long.

Hate Homicide already?

No way!
It's just my cup of tea.

What did you like to be
before you became a cop?

Parden?

When you were little.

Well...

I wanted to be a writer.

- For real?
- Yes. I was a literary type.

A literary type?

What?

Good thing you didn't
become a writer.

You're way too wild
for that.

Hobbies are a luxury
in this business.

That's right.
You just can't afford them.

What about you?
What did you like to be?

A photographer.
I even studied for it.

I kind of became one.

Taking pictures of the dead.
Isn't it wild?

Yeah, that's wild,
forgetting to put the film in.

That's...

I often hit the road
to take pictures.

So hold onto your dream.
Don't give up.

A detective writer specializing
on crime thrillers!

Yeah? That sounds fun.

A cop writing crime thrillers.

This is a waste of time.

Let's go up.

We don't have the warrant,
nor the key to the place.

Leave that to me.

We're breaking the law.
You hear me?

The law doesn't help
busting the bad guys.

When'd you learn to pick locks?

I'm a homicide detective,
remember?

Soyoung!

Yangpyung Valley

Seen him around here?

No.

Honey, what's wrong?
Are you okay?

I'm fine.
Just a bad dream.

You want some water?

Please.

- Better now?
- Yeah, much better.

Sweetie? Behind you...

Who are you?

Come on!
Show yourself!

No!

Kim Dongmin!

We got so scared
we went to the police.

There we met him.

Finding out
our parents were wealthy...

he called a meeting
and offered a deal.

Eventually, Jungho decided
to take the fall

in return for compensation.

Thought the videotape would
stop her from turning you in?

It was Jungho's idea.

But it was his plan all along
to blackmail us.

So you boys teamed up
and k*lled him?

And you k*lled the other two
to cover it up?

No!

We did plan on getting rid
of Jungho.

To retrieve the tape.

But she k*lled him first
and set the house on fire.

She? Kim Minjung?

Know her whereabouts?

No.

That cop said he'd handle her.

Why'd you k*ll your wife?

I saw her face on hers.

Her face...

It's her.

She'll k*ll me, too.

Help me.

- The affidavit?
- Done.

See if anything's wrong.

Book him. And Soyoung?
We gotta talk.

Okay.

Wait. Can I have a cigarette?

Go ahead.

- Don't let anybody in.
- Okay, sir.

Don't just stand there!
Stop him!

Kim Dongmin!

Call the ambulance!

Kim Dongmin!

Why is this half?


and 5 is too many.

Hey, Soyoung.
Suits are upset

Better start writing a report.

Where's Hyunki?

He's meeting someone
this morning.

Where are you going?

Just checking something.

One, two, three, four.

What are you doing?!

Five...

Soyoung speaking.

What's up with your voice?
Got a cold?

I have the analysis report
on that pill bottle.

It's a nervine
but not on the market.

It causes hallucination.

That's not the problem.

I made a huge mistake.

Those cigarette butts
from the crime scenes.

The prussic acid detected

on cigarette filters...

It moved into the mouth
from filters.

Not the other way around.

It reacted with carbonate
inside their stomachs...

and produced prussic gas.

Then it moved into the lungs.

If I analyzed the evidence
and examined the dead body,

I can take a hint, but...

Whoever it was knew
the fact that

the autopsy is done
before analyzing items from the scene.

He knows our business
inside and out.

No vesicant inflammation.

When a lethal gas is inhaled,
blisters foam.

I lived by the saltern
when I was younger.

Who's that kid?

A new addition to our team.

He volunteered
from Forensics.

He's as green as a leaf.

From Forensics?
Why?

Who becomes a cop
to find a first love?

Me!

I wanted to be a photographer.

One, two, three, four...

And half.

Why 4 and half steps?


the person and landscape good.


and 5 is too many.

- Not just the landscape?
- No.

I know all the good angles for you.

You're my first model.

Minjung?

I've been wanting
to tell you something.

What? Go ahead.

- Minjung.
- Yeah?

I'm sorry.

Hyunki?

I knew you'd figure it out.

Everyone makes mistakes.

And it can cause
a significant impact.

One mistake...

Neither they nor I could
be forgiven.

He's not here.

What are we doing now?

The salt house!
That's where he's going.

Okay.
Let's go, guys.

Okay.

By the time you read this,

I'll be with her.

The painful burden
that has weighted me down

Look here!
One, two!

Minjung?

- Congratulations.
- You, too.

Hyunki, would you mind?

- How are you?
- Hi.

- Still into photography?
- Yes.

I can keep it?

When I signal, you come in
and start sh**ting.

It's like making a film.

A film?

What are you doing?
! Sons of b*tches!

You didn't have to k*ll her.
Why did you? Why?

You think I wanted to?

That b*tch was pregnant!

Let me meet them.
Or I will start talking!

Okay, okay.
You'll meet them soon.

You wanna ruin your life?

Hear me out.
Go back where you came.

And none of this has
ever happened.

How nice.
Shut the f*ck up!

Dig her out.
It's the last warning.

Hyunki, stop it!

Keep digging.

Put your g*n down!

I didn't expect you
this soon.

Her feelings were as important
as the pain I suffered.

I didn't know then.

I was a fool.

I loved her and should've
protected her love.

That's what true love is.

Stop it.
That's enough.

It's time to stop.
You've gone too far.

You wanted to k*ll someone,
right?

I know that pain.

sh**t me as if I were him.

You should know
I'm no different.

Don't hesitate.
Go ahead. sh**t me now!

Will this make it easier
for you?

No. I won't sh**t you.
I won't k*ll you.

I will watch you.

You think you'll be
forgivenby death?

Live.
I'll let you live.

So you can see your child
suffer as much.

When you get old, sick,
and die ugly

Only then, I'll whisper
to your ears.

That the life you've lived was worth
less than a dog in heat.

I'm afraid to live
like that.

I'll leave.
I'll ask her for forgiveness.

Forgive me.
For being coward and selfish

I'm sorry.

Minjung?

As the body decomposes,
the gas expands inside.

That pushes the baby out
even after the mother dies.

This is why they say
babies conceived are born.

Dead or alive.

I believe it's said to share
the labor pain

that mothers go through
even after death.

She was in pain for 10 years.

And the baby got stuck
with its neck strangled.

- Hello?
- Sorry to call you off duty.

It's okay.
What's going on?

The materials Hyunki had
about the website...

I handed them in.

But none of us has actually
seen that painting.

- Have you?
- What?

No?

Now that I think of it...

I haven't.

Female Cop Becomes Writer

Hey, I just got here.
How's the baby? Sleeping?

I'll take some time off
after this project.

We'll go on a trip.

Okay.

I love you.

Arang Legend/ Four hundred years ago,
there was a village where
all newly appointed magistrates,

were k*lled. So nobody
wanted to be appointed to the village.

However a new magistrate volunteered
to came to the village and

he heard from Arang's vindictive spirits that
she had been r*ped and k*lled.

Then he seized the criminal and
inflicted punishment on him.

He found Arang's dead body
and buried.

It is said when the deadbody was found,

it was not decayed at all
because of her deep resentment.