Barking dogs never bite (2000) on Netflix
An unemployed academic, Go Yun-ju, is tormented by a yapping dog in his apartment block and takes drastic action. The building's bookkeeper, Park Hyeon-nam, longs for fame as dogs go missing.
- Netflix3.9/5
- IMDb6.9/1012,198 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes88%
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Plot summary
Go Yun-ju, an academic without work, is trying to land a professorship and lives in a large apartment block with his pregnant wife Eun-sil. A dog's yapping in the building grates on him until he decides on drastic action: he catches an unattended Shih Tzu, carries it to the basement and shuts it in a cabinet. Park Hyeon-nam keeps the books and does maintenance for the same block, and she envies the fame a bank teller won on television by stopping a robbery. When a small girl asks her to put up flyers for her missing Shih Tzu, Hyeon-nam takes an interest in the building's lost dogs.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Barking dogs never bite (2000)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The plot of Barking Dogs Never Bite came from director Bong Joon Ho's childhood memory of finding a dead puppy on the top of his building. It left a strong impression on him, and he was scared the security guards would eat it.
- Bae Doona was new to the Korean film industry when director Bong Joon Ho recommended her to the production company, loving her "smooth moves like an octopus" and her unpretentious speech patterns.
- So that Barking Dogs Never Bite would stir the emotions people feel while watching a cartoon, the movie was shot by mixing the speed of filming.
