Mother (2009) – Filming Locations
Crime / Drama / Mystery · Directed by Bong Joon Ho · Starring Won Bin, Kim Hye-ja
A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.
Where was Mother filmed?
- Gangwon Province, South Korea, Gangwon Province – Establishing shots of the rural village where the mother and son live; the natural landscape and small-town setting. The remote Gangwon Province countryside provided the isolated, claustrophobic setting essential to the film's psychological tension and the mother's confined world
- Seoul, South Korea, Seoul – Scenes involving the murder investigation, police station sequences, and the protagonist's movements through the city. Seoul's urban landscape contrasts with the rural isolation, representing the broader world that encroaches on the mother's protective bubble and the site of the crime investigation
- Gimpo, South Korea, Gimpo – Various exterior sequences in the town where the mother pursues leads in her investigation. The suburban/semi-rural areas of Gimpo serve as locations where the mother conducts her amateur investigation, blurring the line between her village and the larger urban world