Doomsday Book

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Movie: Doomsday Book
Revised romanization: Inlyumyeolmangbogoseo
Hangul: 인류멸망보고서
Director: Kim Jee-Woon ("Creation of Heaven" & "Happy Birthday"), Yim Pil-Sung ("Wonderful New World" & "Happy Birthday")
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Producer:
Cinematographer: Kim Ji-Yong
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Runtime: 113 min.
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

Plot

Wonderful New World ("Mutjin Sinsegye") - Researcher Yoon Seok-Woo (Ryoo Seung-Bum) stays at home alone after his family leaves on a overseas trip. Seok-Woo then goes on a blind date. He meets a beautiful woman (Koh Joon-Hee). Seok-Woo then attempts to seduce the beautiful woman and finally gets a moment to kiss the beautiful woman, but a bunch of high school students disrupts their intimate moment. Seok-Woo kicks out the high school students with superhuman strength. Since then, his body starts to change. The streets are now filled with zombies, the media looks for a mysterious virus and the city of Seoul seems doomed ...

Creation of Heaven ("Chunsangui Pijomul") - In the future, when robots have become replacements for human labor, guide robot RU-4 works at a Buddhist temple. The robot achieves enlightenment and begins to preach sermons at the temple. UR, the company that manufactured the company, considers the robot a threat to human beings, and decides to disassemble RU-4. A robot repairman named Park Do-Won (Kim Kang-Woo) and Bodhisattva Hye-Joo (Kim Gyu-Ri) then try to save the robot from its imminent demise.

Happy Birthday - Elementary school student Park Min-Seo (Jin Ji-Hee) breaks an 8-ball which belongs to her billiard obsessed father. Min-Seo connects to a mysterious sit and orders a replacement 8-ball. 2 years later, a meteor resembling a massive 8-ball heads toward planet Earth. With the possibility that the meteor will destroy planet Earth, Min-Seo's family heads to an underground bunker built by her uncle (Song Sae-Byeok). 7 years later, Min-Seo (Bae Doo-Na) leaves the bunker, possessed by a bright light ...

Notes

Movie "Doomsday Book" was originally planned as a three segment omnibus film. Filming began May 21 2006, but because of financing problems production stopped.
Because of financing problems another segment that was titled "Christmas Present" and to be directed by Han Jae-Rim was not completed.
Kim Jee-Woon participated in the third segment "Happy Birthday" as a guest director.