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SECRET ZOO (2019)
  • Director SON Jae-gon
    Year 2019
    Status Completed
    Genre drama, comedy
    Starring AHN Jae-hong, KANG So-ra, PARK Young-kyu, KIM Sung-oh, JEON Yeo-been
    Running Time 117 min.
    Country of Production South Korea
    Festival & Awards 2020 Hawaii International Film Festival
    2020 New York Asian Film Festival - South Korea's Hidden Voices
    2020 Vancouver Asian Film Festival
    2020 Asian Summer Film Festival in Barcelona - Competition
    Synopsis Stuck in a dead-end temp position at a renowned law firm, attorney-at-law Tae-su dreams of one day landing a permanent position there. He spends each day to the fullest to reach his goal and he gets the chance of a lifetime. He's given a special job to revitalize a failing zoo. The problem is, there aren't any animals... He has exactly 3 months to do so, and with the zookeepers' help, he comes up with a brilliant idea: no one thinks there are fake animals at the zoo, so why not dress up like animals and put on shows for guests? One by one, zookeepers put on animal suits and masks and become polar bears, tigers, gorillas, sloths!
    The new zoo opens and Tae-su's polar bear goes viral when a video of him drinking a can of coke hits the internet! Thanks to everyone's help, the zoo with fake animals is a massive hit and Tae-su can now go back to the law firm with a permanent job. But before he leaves the zoo, he finds out what his law firm was planning with the zoo...
    Can Tae-su come up with another brilliant idea to save not only himself but the zookeepers and the zoo?
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