A nonetheless from “The Nice Flood” / Courtesy of Netflix
The sci-fi catastrophe movie “The Nice Flood” held the No. 1 spot for the fourth consecutive week on Netflix’s non-English motion pictures chart, the streaming service mentioned Wednesday.
Directed by Kim Byung-woo, the Netflix unique garnered 5.2 million views for the week ending Jan. 11, outperforming the Indian courtroom drama “Haq,” which logged 4.5 million views.
The movie’s recognition propelled it to No. 7 on Netflix’s all-time prime 10 hottest non-English motion pictures, turning into the one South Korean entry on the checklist.
“The Nice Flood,” launched Dec. 19, depicts the struggles of An-na, performed by Kim Da-mi, a single mom of a 6-year-old son who all of the sudden wakes up in the course of a devastating flood that engulfs her condominium advanced and, by extension, the planet. She fights to guard her younger son as she navigates the inundated constructing.
In the meantime, Yeon Sang-ho’s thriller drama “The Ugly” entered the weekly chart at No. 5, garnering 2 million views in its debut week.
Based mostly on Yeon’s 2018 debut graphic novel of the identical title, the low-budget movie follows Dong-hwan (Park Jeong-min), the one son of blind seal engraver grasp Younger-kyu (Kwon Hae-hyo), as he searches for the reality about his mom’s mysterious disappearance 4 a long time in the past.
