South Korea Box Office for The Ugly (얼굴) (2025)

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The Ugly
Theatrical Performance (US$)
South Korea Box Office $7,507,058Details
Worldwide Box Office $7,565,453Details
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Synopsis

One day while overseeing a documentary crew filming his blind father at work, Im Dong-hwan gets a phone call that his missing mother’s remains have been found after forty years. Determined to find the truth of her disappearance, Dong-hwan embarks on a twisted odyssey through his family’s traumatic past, uncovering dark secrets along the way.

Metrics

Movie Details

South Korea Releases: September 11th, 2025 (Limited), released as The Ugly (얼굴)
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
(Rated 9/29/2025)
Running Time: 102 minutes
Keywords: Missing Person, Young Child Dealing with the Death of a Parent, Blindness, Documentarian, Mystery Drama, Family Secrets
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Drama
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Contemporary Fiction
Production/Financing Companies: Wowpoint
Production Countries: Republic of Korea
Languages: Korean

Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeScreensPer ScreenTotal GrossWeek
2025/09/12 2 $2,149,630   0     $2,399,206 1
2025/09/19 1 $1,903,939 -11% 0     $5,352,235 2
2025/09/26 4 $672,920 -65% 0     $6,667,400 3
2025/10/03 8 $301,234 -55% 0     $7,222,866 4
2025/10/10 10 $103,118 -66% 0     $7,663,997 5
2025/10/17 20 $23,037 -78% 0     $7,662,194 6
2025/10/24 37 $7,730 -66% 0     $7,730,057 7
2025/11/07 31 $1,030   0     $7,507,058 9

Box Office Summary Per Territory

$00$00
Territory Release
Date		 Opening
Weekend		 Opening
Weekend
Screens		 Maximum
Screens		 Theatrical
Engagements		 Total
Box Office		 Report
Date
France 3/4/2026 00$0
North America 9/26/2025 $26,797 36 36 47 $58,395
Russia (CIS) 1/22/2026 00$0
South Korea 9/11/2025 $2,149,630 0 0 0 $7,507,058 11/12/2025
 
Worldwide Total$7,565,453 11/12/2025

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Leading Cast

Park Jeong-min   

Supporting Cast

Kwon Haehyo   
Shin Hyun-been   
Im Seong-jae   
Han Ji-hyeon   

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Production and Technical Credits

Sang-ho Yeon    Director
Sang-ho Yeon    Screenwriter
Yang Yoomin Hailey    Producer
Hong Jeongin    Executive Producer
Pyo Sang-Woo    Director of Photography
Lee Mok-won    Production Designer
Park Ju-ae    Editor
Hong Jeong-ho    Visual Effects Supervisor
Lee Ji-Yeon    Visual Effects Supervisor
Kim Kyeong-Mi    Costume Designer