Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013) on Netflix
Lee Yong-gu, a man with a developmental disability, is wrongly imprisoned for a child's death in Room 7. He wants to see his young daughter Ye-sung, who is on the outside.
- Netflix4.1/5
- IMDb8.1/1026,479 votes
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Trailer
Plot summary
Yong-gu has a developmental disability, and his six-year-old daughter Ye-sung is always with him. The two stop in front of a store window to admire a Sailor Moon backpack, and Yong-gu promises to buy it when he is paid. The police commissioner's daughter gets to it first; when Yong-gu rushes in to grab it, the commissioner assaults him and throws him out of the store. The next day, the commissioner's daughter spots Yong-gu in the market and tries to show him a shop selling the same backpack, but she slips on the icy pavement and a brick falls on her head. A female bystander misreads Yong-gu's attempts at CPR, and he is arrested for rape and murder. He is sent to a prison cell called Room 7, shared with five other inmates.
Cast
- Han-bi Jungas Ye-seung's Homeroom Teacher
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Miracle in Cell No. 7 was based on the real case of a man tortured into pleading guilty to the 1972 rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Chuncheon; he was only exonerated in November 2008.
- 32 days after release, Miracle in Cell No. 7 became only the eighth film in Korean cinema history to pass 10 million tickets, and despite a modest budget and a break-even point of 1.7 million admissions it made the highest profit of any film that reached that mark.
