'The Ugly’ Tops Box Office for 6 Days, Surpasses 600,000 Viewers

Mystery film 'The Ugly' (directed by Yeon Sang-ho, produced by Wow Point) showed off its potential by keeping the top spot in the box office for six consecutive days.

According to the Korea Film Council's integrated computer network for movie theater admission tickets on the 21st, 'The Ugly' attracted 113,138 audiences on the 20th, recording 632,171 cumulative audiences, maintaining the top spot in the overall box office. On the same day, Japanese animation 'Theatrical Edition's Blade of Extinction: Infiniteity' (hereinafter 'The Blade of Extinction: Infiniteity', directed by Haruo Sotozaki) ranked second with 94,630 (accumulated 4,723,023).

'The Ugly' is a story about a blind man who becomes a craftsman in all fields, his son, and his wife and mother who have been buried for 40 years. Park Jung-min, Kwon Hae-hyo, Shin Hyun-bin, Lim Sung-jae, and Han Ji-hyun appeared, and Yeon Sang-ho, director of 'Train to Busan'Ban Peninsula', took the megaphone.

The art buster 'The Ugly', which was completed with only two weeks of pre-production, 13th shootings, and a very low budget production cost of 200 million won, was released on the 11th and surpassed the break-even point on the first day by mobilizing 35,018 people on the first day, exceeding the cumulative sales of 346,711,750.

From the next day to the first weekend, the 'The Ugly' was supposed to give up the top spot in the competition "Blade of Extinction: Infiniteity" but in the second week, it won the "Face of Extinction: Infiniteity" and recaptured the top spot by beating "Blade of Extinction: Infiniteity". Starting on the 15th and 20th, 'The Ugly', which ranked No. 1 for six days, surpassed 500,000 cumulative viewers on the 19th, nine days after its release, and a day later, it also broke through 600,000 barriers.