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My Daughter Is A Zombie is a South Korean comedy film about a father and daughter who navigate their lives amid a deadly zombie outbreak. The storyline revolves around Jung-Hwan (Jo Jung-Suk), a professional tiger trainer, and his daughter, Soo-A (Choi Yoo-Ri), who is passionate about dancing. However, one day, when a zombie virus sweeps across the globe, he takes his infected daughter to the seaside village of Eunbong-Ri to protect her.
As he doesn’t wanna give up on his daughter, he puts all of his years of tiger taming experience to control his zombie daughter and train her. Released on July 30, 2025, the movie is already making a lot of buzz not only in South Korea but across the globe. It has already broken the opening record of a Korean film domestically, surpassing hugely popular movies like Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and Exhuma. Scroll ahead to know more.
What Was The Footfall Of My Daughter Is A Zombie On Its First Day?
On July 31, 2025, as per the Korean Film Council’s data (via Soompi), the integrated ticketing network for My Daughter Is A Zombie recorded 430,101 moviegoers nationwide on its release day, i.e., on July 30, 2025. The total number of audience not only surpassed the Korean box office leader of 2025, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which recorded 423,892 moviegoers, but it also topped the all-time highest-opening for a Korean comedy film, Extreme Job, which secured 368,582 moviegoers.
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Opening day for #MyDaughterIsAZombie and the movie topped the box office with a total of 429,870 watchers!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Promising start!!! (Another record for the year I think) 🥹💖 pic.twitter.com/RxrhEjQLbQ
— icy ☁️🌈조절 brainrot (@songhwasrain) July 30, 2025
