Korean comedy thriller My Daughter is a Zombie has scored the biggest opening day at the Korean box office this year.
With 430,000 admissions on its premiere on July 30, My Daughter is a Zombie has surpassed Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning for opening day admissions.
Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning previously held the record, bringing 423,000 audience members to theaters on its opening day in South Korea.
Additionally, My Daughter is a Zombie has outperformed 2019 film Extreme Job to achieve the highest opening for a Korean comedy film in history. Extreme Job attracted 368,000 admissions on its opening day.
My Daughter is a Zombie follows Jung-hwan, an animal trainer, and his teenage daughter, Lee Su A. One day, Su A becomes infected by a zombie virus that has swept across the globe. To protect his daughter, Jung-hwan heads to Eunbong-ri, a quiet seaside village where his mother also lives.
As society hunts down the infected, the family secretly lives together. Refusing to give up on his daughter, Jung-hwan draws on his experience as a wild animal trainer and embarks on a life-or-death mission — taming a zombie.
Adapted from a webtoon of the same name, the film stars Jo Jung-suk (Hospital Playlist), Lee Jung-eun (Parasite), Cho Yeo-jeong (Parasite), Yoon Kyung-ho, and Choi Yoo-ri.
My Daughter is a Zombie‘s strong opening puts the film on a promising trajectory for a record-breaking box office run, given how the film’s opening day admissions has significantly exceeded the opening scores of some of Korea’s most commercially-successful films so far.
This includes Exhuma (330,000), 12.12: The Day (203,000), Pilot (373,000) and Omniscient Reader (122,000).
