Cj entertainment presents
A pollux barunson inc production
executive producer: Tae-sung jeong
Based on novel by you-jeong jeong
To submerge a town for dam construction,
they demolish the buildings first.
But here, they flooded it as it is.
- How do you mean? - They sunk an entire village untouched.
Last fall, a TV crew came with divers,
wanting to film "Korea's atlantis”, as they called it.
The villagers protested, broke their equipment.
The administrator in charge almost lost his job.
Why?
Don't you know what people call it?
The man-eating lake.
They don't call it haunted for nothing.
- You think it's funny?? - No, sir.
Don't think about going in there.
Sorry?
I know that you're a diver.
- And you're itching to see what's in there. - I'm not.
Don't take me for a fool.
That lake gives me the creeps.
You might think it's bullshit but stay clear of it.
Because it's not just any old lake.
Seung-ryong ryu
dong-gun jang
Sae-byuk song
Kyoung-pyo ko
green light, green light, red light!
Chang-min choo
hey, you're not supposed to move!
Green light, green light, red light!
You moved!
I saw you move.
Seryung village
earnie!
Where'd you go?
Earnie!
Quit playing around!
Where are you?
Earnie!
Why do you keep doing this? Huh?
Where are you going?
For god's sake!
I'm telling you, if we stay here, we'll all die!
Stop this nonsense.
Enough of this! Get a hold of yourself!
Father, I saw it.
The water stinks of blood.
We gotta fill in the well.
How can you not see it?
Look over there. Right there.
You see?
The water is swallowing people.
Father, look... no!
Sucking them up and swallowing them.
It'll swallow us all!
Seven years of night
Patrol 2 rescued a young boy near seryung dam.
The situation appears urgent. Send further assistance.
Repeat, urgent, send backup.
What happened to dad?
Hyun-su choi!
2004
let's get the farewell party started.
- Everyone ready? - Ready!
2 weeks before the incident
Mom, playground here is huge!
Unbelievable...
You haven't left yet?
I told you. I didn't hear it ring.
Didn't I tell you that the guy next door is expecting you?
A farewell party?
Are we moving to another country?
We don't have much time.
- Hey! - Is it dad?
Don't jump!
- Dad! - Hey, son.
This apartment is ours!
It's got two bathrooms, and the rooms are huge.
They even have a library in the complex.
Mom said when I go to middle school, we'll move here.
Is that for real?
Hurry back, okay?
Seriously? You bought an apartment?
I know.
How many square feet?
1130.
Quit messing around!
No joke.
That's awesome, man.
Awesome? You don't know the half of it.
I can barely afford the interest.
How am I going to pay for it?
Not with my security guard paycheck.
What're you going to do then?
What can I do? There's a staff house freeing up.
So we'll rent out the apartment and move there.
Damn, my wife won't stop calling.
I'm off.
You sure you can drive? Take a nap first!
Take care!
The number you're calling is not available. Please leave a message after the tone.
This is security officer ahn. I'm waiting for you at the house.
Please let me know if you're still coming.
Where the hell's this guy at?
I'm almost there, about 30 minutes out.
How many times should I tell you?
Don't just rush in and out. Make sure you look carefully.
Check the gas meter first
also, see if there's room for a washing machine.
And there's an oil boiler?
We need to be clear on the costs.
There are police up ahead.
Yea...
- I'm hanging up, okay? - Hello? Hyun-su?
What's the matter with him?
Dr young-je oh
hello, it's me. Where is ha-young?
Where is she?
The court ruling? That means nothing to me.
Ten years as husband and wife will not be cut off by a court ruling.
Come on, let's go.
I give her one week.
Tell her,
if she doesn't come back til then,
she should prepare herself.
She'll know very well what that means.
You know how I am.
I will never give her up.
What the...?
Starting to piss me off!
Dad, I feel like I'm suffocating.
Ha-young!
I can't take it anymore.
If I keep on living like this,
both se-ryung and I will die...
Seryung village
Dad, I feel like I'm suffocating.
Ha-young!
I can't take it anymore. If I keep on living like this,
both se-ryung and I will die in his hands.
Hell would feel like heaven without him.
You don't know him, dad.
He is the devil himself.
You don't know him, dad.
He is the devil himself.
Good evening, Dr. oh.
Get up.
I told you not to touch mom's things.
But you keep disobeying your daddy.
I'm sorry.
I won't do it again. I'm sorry.
I want to ask you something.
Will you answer me honestly?
Yes.
Have you talked to your mother?
Just like your mother. Keeping your mouth shut.
Go stand in front of the closet.
It's her, isn't it?
It's okay, you can talk.
I want to apologize to you.
Don't you miss se-ryung?
Ha-young?
Answer me, goddammit!
You think I won't find you, huh?
If I track this phone, I'll find you right away.
You're not scared of me because you can't see me?
You keep forgetting who I am.
You don't remember? Try harder.
After all I've done for you...
Se-ryung!
Go on! Hide away.
Daddy's gonna find you.
Se-ryung!
This is ahn again. Something's come up, so I have to leave.
You can take a look around first.
I'll text you the door passcode.
Mr. ahn, it's se-ryung. Open the door, please!
Are you home?
Please, open the door
Mr. ahn, please.
Do you know where se-ryung might go?
Did I pass the exit?
Se-ryung!
There's my good girl.
But you know
I'll make you pay for this.
You hear?
Blocked number
I gotta see seo-won.
2011
I'm not going!
Seo-won.
He's the one who's refused to meet me up til now.
He's the one that abandoned me.
Rampage killer hyun-su choi
that magazine is driving me crazy.
People scorn us for being tied to a murderer.
They were even sent to his school and the neighbors.
- Just send him away. - But where to?
Wherever!
Just like his father, he'll do something terrible.
What about this apartment? It belongs to seo-won.
Seo-won!
They're gone.
I got back from school trip.
They even changed their number.
You're only one I could think of.
He said he's not coming.
I guess he's not ready.
These days, he's helping out on the boat,
giving diving instructions.
He's better in the water than me now.
What about school?
How could he go back after all that's happened?
After mercilessly murdering a 12-year-old
and drowning half the villagers by opening the dam gate,
he refused to defend himself.
He requested execution.
Upon hearing his death sentence, hyun-su choi remained emotionless.
His wife was found 37 miles away from seryung lake.
Drowned.
His son, the only survivor of the family,
will live with his relatives. Give it to me.
Is that why you transferred here?
I'll kill you!
You fucking bastard!
- Let's check out some other schools. - Where?
I'm done with all of this.
I'm tired of running away.
Come out, you son of a bitch.
Don't go behind my back.
Come out and say it to my face!
If you want revenge,
do it to the person in jail!
They'll execute me soon.
Hyun-su...
Every morning, my heart pounds,
wondering if today will be the day.
I gotta see seo-won.
I'm here to visit someone.
He doesn't want to meet his son.
Why not?
He'll only meet with the guardian.
Searching for a missing child.
Se-ryung oh, 12 years old.
A birthmark on the left side of the back of the neck.
If you see a girl who fits this description...
Se-ryung! Se-ryung!
Se-ryung, where are you?
Excuse me. Sir?
Car's fixed.
You're lucky it was just a deer.
If it was something else, you'd be gone already.
Shake it off and move on.
Dad...
Where have you been?
You don't pick up your phone.
You don't answer your texts.
Did you fall off the wagon again?
It drives me crazy when I can't reach you.
- Where are you going? - I'm going to wash up.
I saved up your small salary to get us an apartment,
and that still isn't enough?
You didn't go by the house.
Are you doing this to piss me off?
You can't even do one thing for me?
I had to call to handle it all!
What?
I said I had to call them!
You made a fuss over something
that can be handled by a phone call?
Why do I have to deal with everything in this goddamn house?
It was a 5-hour drive back and forth!
Did you just hit me?
You're just like your father!
Go on! Hit me!
Do it!
Hit me!
You crazy asshole!
Hit me! Hit me!
Do it!
You crazy asshole, hit me!
Hit me! Hit me!
Wow, a dam.
You really didn't see anything?
A 12-year-old girl went missing.
Did Dr. oh put you up to this? To interrogate me?
Don't take offense. Plus, there was that last time.
A 12-year-old girl was crying in the woods alone.
In her pajamas.
Her body was covered in bruises.
I know, but...
But the girl's father called me a sex offender,
and got me locked up all day.
I know you got hard feelings about Dr. oh,
but you stand to gain nothing by crossing him.
Understood?
What... what?
I'm hyun-su choi.
Oh, the new security supervisor!
What brings you to our shabby little village?
The village is a little noisy, isn't it?
You've come at troubled times.
A few days ago, a young girl disappeared.
What?
Her mother must've taken her. Where can she have gone?
Drink up, and we'll go have a look at the dam.
This dam was built by crossing the river in the middle
so a lot of water flows through here.
We keep the gates open except during drought.
Otherwise, the water fills up right away.
Missing child
that girl who disappeared...
Se-ryung?
Do you know her?
Her dad's got a notorious reputation.
He's a well-to-do dentist, has a big clinic in the city.
He owns half of the land here, so it's hard not to know him.
Everyone calls him Dr. oh!'
whatever you say. You're the boss.
Got it.
Looks like he got that permit after all.
Once Dr. oh sets his mind, what can stop him?
They can search the lake starting tomorrow.
Seo-won!
We've got so much to unpack. Get back here!
You bastards, don't go in there!
You'll kill the entire village! Don't disturb the old lake!
Step back or I'll arrest you for obstruction of justice.
Who cares about that when doom could fall on our village?
Get out right now, you idiots!
What happened?
What happened to se-ryung?
Your father-in-law's here.
Come on. You don't need to be out here.
Young-je, where is she? She's fine, right?
It's not a big deal. We're just doing a search.
We'll tell you if we find something, so go home for now.
Don't worry.
Is everything alright?
It's not a big deal.
See that they get home okay.
- What's all the fuss about? - They say a child fell.
- Why would a child go in there? - She must have been possessed.
I told you something would happen!
- We should've filled it a long time ago. - I know.
I told you something would happen.
We should've filled it.
He got drunk and fell in by accident.
What are you talking about? Who would fall into a well by accident?
He was possessed by the well.
We found the body!
Get up, se-ryung!
Go to your room at once!
Chief?
We got something.
There's a car entering near the upstream area.
Right there... at 11:02.
Keep going.
There's another driving down.
It looks like the same car. That is suspicious.
No one ever drives on that road at night.
What do you make of it?
Just looks like a small car.
- Send it over for analysis. - Yes sir.
Will you come with me to the station?
Was it an accident or incident?
Shut up!
Shut that mouth!
I said die!
Seo-won... seo-won?
Seo-won!
Hyun-su.
Hyun-sul!
It's a ritual to save the soul.
My dad used to recover bodies from the water,
so I've seen it a lot since I was young.
It seems there was a car accident.
She had hemorrhaging in the brain,
her collarbone and skull were broken.
But direct cause of death was something else.
Suffocation via forced airway obstruction.
The suspect suffocated her by covering her mouth,
then dumped the body in the lake.
There are no signs of sexual assault.
Where did you learn that?
Mom was like this for a while after dad died in a diving accident.
Let go.
I've never even seen that girl.
Liar. I saw you.
She's dead!
Come with me. You're my friend, aren't you?
Let him go! Don't touch him!
Dad!
Kim, ring the emergency siren.
Dad...
- Seo-won! - Dad...
Dad...
I saw the dead girl.
The day the police came, I went to the lake with some other kids.
We'd just gotten there,
and she came out of the water.
Her face was so scary and strange. It made me feel sick.
Some woman covered my eyes.
Stay still and don't look.
If you look into the eyes of the dead, you'll never get away from them.
Every night, she comes and finds me.
I want to tell her that she can't come here,
but I can't speak.
She says if she hadn't died, we would've been classmates.
Because her seat was next to mine.
That girl is dead, right?
Green light, green light, red light!
We found signs of repetitive abuse on the child's body.
Can you explain this?
Are you suggesting
I strangled my daughter and threw her in the lake?
I heard you're in the middle of a divorce.
Habitual physical and verbal abuse.
Looks like you rule with a hard fist.
Dr. oh.
Is your wife's name ha-young moon?
Okay.
Positive?
All right.
They just found your wife's body in suwon.
It looks like she committed suicide.
Dr. oh?
Stupid bitch...
They say ha-young is dead.
What'd you say?
She hanged herself.
She left everything and ran away... Only to kill herself?
You killed them.
Both ha-young and se-ryung.
You think this will bring her back?
I'll find whoever killed her and make him pay!
Continue.
Hit the gong. Hit it.
Shut up!
I said shut up!
Diel
diel
He moved here recently.
I don't know how many times I saw that.
The first time must have been Friday.
He was walking with his shoes in his hands.
I thought it was weird, so I followed him.
He threw the shoes in the lake then started balling his eyes out.
He didn't even see me standing there
as if he was possessed by something.
This is for diving, not fishing.
It's florescent so probably for night diving.
When you're diving at night, if you Mark intervals like this,
you can check the depth, and easily find your way out.
Seung-hwan ahn, 32 years old.
He's been working as dam security since last November.
No prior convictions.
He used to be ssu, ship salvage unit.
From now on, use this phone to contact me.
It's a burner phone. So it's untraceable.
- Mom. - Too small.
Look at the state of his shoes.
Oh, come on.
I bought them one size bigger.
I'll return them tomorrow.
He says they're not small.
With the money to buy these, you can get three pairs.
Don't be so stingy with our son!
He's going to middle school soon. We gotta save up more.
- I'll return them. - I said no.
- Dad, I don't need these. - You stay quiet.
What about the apartment?
We gotta pay the loan.
Enough with the apartment!
All of this is because of that damn apartment!
Hey! Stop! Don't do it!
You worthless bastard!
Before there was 911,
there were people who fish drowned body out of the water.
They were called alligators.
Back then, kids learned diving at age 12.
I asked you why this was there?
And I'm telling you that I'm an alligator.
That's why I was there that night.
Who is your scapegoat this time?
You don't remember?
Accusing me of being a sex offender?
That's funny?
Let me tell you something really funny.
That night,
se-ryung came by.
Mr. ahn!
Are you sleeping?
Mr. ahn, are you home?
She had dried blood on her face.
- She called me again and again. - Mr. ahn?
I just hid behind the door
open the door, please!
You know why?
I didn't want to be accused of being a sex offender again.
How about that? Is that funny?
If I had opened the door that night,
se-ryung would still be alive, you fucking bastard!
This is young-je oh.
Get me the plate numbers of all the cars
passing the toll gate on the night of the 29th.
Chief,
there's a car entering near the upstream area.
There's another driving down
it looks like the same car.
Dad...
Hyun-su...
Shut up!
Diel
die, die!
Diel
Found the body!
Over here. Come on!
Pull him up!
Dr. oh?
Yeah, the dead girl's father.
Seryung traffic record
he was asking about when you moved in.
Why?
He said he saw you somewhere.
Going out for a second.
You can stop coming, okay?
What would you use it for?
Sir!
Please open the door!
It's seo-won.
Is my dad sick?
Your dad is having a dream.
A bad dream.
Just like I'm dreaming about that girl?
I don't go out when she calls me,
but dad follows, doesn't he?
Hyun-su...
Dad!
Dad, you okay?
Luckily, no bones were broken, so only a temporary cast.
Why don't you ask me anything?
You know what I've been doing...
Every night.
My father...
He was a disabled soldier.
He lost an arm in the Vietnam war.
People called him...
Crazy dog.
Sergeant crazy dog choi.
Mom's dead!
There was an old well in the village I lived in.
A dark and deep well. You couldn't see the bottom.
I took my dad's army boots and went to the well.
They said if shoes fell into the well,
the owner of the shoes would die.
Die, you asshole!
Then, I heard my dad's voice from inside.
Hyun-su...
I thought the well was talking to me.
They said the well was possessed.
They said it was alive.
Shut up and die!
I threw in the other shoe.
Then I heard my dad's voice again.
Hyun-su...
Help me...
Help me.
I covered my ears and ran away.
I thought I was dreaming.
My dad's eyes were staring at me.
My dad, who I hated so much.
We are exactly the same.
The way we behave, the way we look.
Even the way we drink...
I'm like my father.
But seo-won can be different.
He should never be like me.
What's going on with you?
I got a night shift.
You're on a goddamn sick leave!
- Mom. - Get out for a sec.
Let's go, seo-won.
Hyun-su...
The police came this morning.
That night I asked you to check out the house,
were you here?
You weren't, right?
Okay then.
Dr. oh, I found it.
He came here the day after the accident.
He paid cash, the police had already come and left.
But Dr. oh,
they said hyun-su choi called.
To turn himself in.
Did you know about this?
Go away!
Now!
Get away from here!
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
Sorry.
I'm so sorry.
How tall is your son?
5' 2"?
5'3"?
If you close the dam gate, the water fills up right away.
How long can he stay alive?
Seo-won!
Let him live, please. I'm sorry!
Dr. oh!
Doctor!
My boy is innocent.
Kill me! I said kill me!
You son of a bitch!
I killed her. So kill me!
Leave my son out of this!
You son of a bitch!
Help!
Anyone there?
Help me!
Why did you do it?
You didn't have to kill her.
Why?
The fog was thick.
I'd been drinking,
and I got lost.
All of a sudden, there she was.
I couldn't believe I'd killed someone.
Then her cellphone rang.
I thought she was dead, but she opened her eyes
and whispered in my ear.
I had never heard anything more petrifying.
I heard it more than a hundred times.
I still hear it in my dreams, when I'm awake.
What did she say?
I didn't want to kill her.
I just wanted to stop the ringing.
What did she say?
I'm sorry, daddy.
In case of malfunction, operate manually in the engine room
Engine room
Seo-won?
Seo-won needs help!
- He's trapped! - Hyun-su?
I need to open the gate!
- Can you hear me? - He'll die!
Seo-won needs help!
Wait! If you open the gate, the village will flood.
Hyun-sul!
No!
Help!
Dad!
Seo-won!
Se-ryung...
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry, se-ryung.
Dad...
Help me!
Just this once!
Please!
Help me!
Dad!
You've never done anything for me!
Just this once!
Seo-won!
Seo-won, you okay?!
I committed an unforgivable sin.
I killed people,
and I can only pay back with my life.
Seo-won.
Young-je oh came to visit.
The dead girl's father.
He wants me to suffer as much as he did.
He wants me to see you die in front of me.
Just like 7 years ago.
Life guard certificate
why did you do it?
Why did you save me?
Dozens of people died because of me.
So how I could live like this?
Look at me.
Look at me!
Why did you save me? Why?
Because...
I'm your father.
I came to see you every month.
For 3 years,
I came here every month!
Hey...
Yeah?
Why didn't you leave me?
For 7 years, I don't share a single drop of blood with you.
Why?
I was afraid you'd die...
If 1 ignored you like I ignored se-ryung that night.
Dad wanted me to say thank you
for everything you've done.
Me, too.
You're incredible. Still alive.
Thought you'd kill yourself by now.
Still, I'm glad you're not happy.
I wanted to let your dad see you hang to death.
Just wait a little longer.
Inside seryung lake is where you will die.
Seo-won...
Your father's dead.
This morning, death row inmate hyun-su choi
hanged himself in his prison cell.
He was rushed to hospital but died.
Choi was sentenced to life after killing a 12-year-old girl,
and drowning half the residents of a village.
Worthless coward... All the way to the end!
It doesn't matter if you're alive or dead.
It's still vivid.
The first time I saw ha-young,
I felt thirst for the first time.
Like I never felt it before.
She was a beautiful, good woman.
Except that she had no love for me.
But that was no problem.
Because she would love me eventually.
I thought we were almost there.
Little more effort.
Just a little more.
Ha-young, se-ryung...
Your dad ruined everything.
Hyun-su choi.
Do you think you can change anything?
It only ends when I end it.
Green light, green light, red light!
Seo-won!
Shall we go?
This was among dad's belongings.
He apologized
se-ryung
and to everyone else.
Seven years of night
directed by choo Chang-min
Based on the novel by jeong you-jeong