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Plot summary
Hyeon-soo is an actor, and his wife Soo-jin is pregnant with their child. At first he only talks in his sleep. Soon he says there is someone inside, scratches his own face until it bleeds, and eats raw meat from the refrigerator at night. Their doctor diagnoses a sleep disorder, prescribes medication and advises him to abstain from alcohol. The visits bring no improvement. Soo-jin's religious mother believes something supernatural is at work and wants divine help brought in. Worried about the baby she is expecting, Soo-jin decides the sleep clinic is not enough and seeks out a shaman, Madame Haegoong.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sleep (2023)
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- Jason Yu wrote Sleep after being inspired by the moments when he was preparing to marry his girlfriend of seven years, and wondered what daily life would look like for a loved one beside a sleepwalker.
- During pre-production on Sleep, Bong Joon-ho, whose Okja Jason Yu had assisted on, strongly recommended Lee Sun-kyun to play the husband, Hyeon-soo.
- Jason Yu had Jung Yu-mi in mind as the perfect actress when he first created the character Soo-jin.
