The Moon

The Moon (더 문, 2023) is a Korean sci-fi survival film you can watch online on iFILM. Director Kim Yong-hwa, known for the Along with the Gods duology, this time strands a single astronaut on the lunar surface with no rescue in sight. Sul Kyung-gu, Do Kyung-soo, and Kim Hee-ae lead the cast.

It is 2029. Korea's lunar probe Woori reaches orbit, but the mission goes catastrophically wrong — the crew is wiped out, and only one man, Hwang Sun-woo, survives. On Earth, engineer Kim Jae-guk — sidelined from the space programme after a prior disaster he blames himself for — steps back into the control room and tries to bring the astronaut home through calculations that keep coming up short. The clock runs in real time. The options narrow with every hour.

At 129 minutes the film earns its runtime: the orbital mechanics feel grounded, the stakes stay personal rather than turning into pure spectacle, and the father-son emotional thread running between the man on the ground and the man in space gives the survival plot actual weight. For anyone who wants a Korean blockbuster that does not sacrifice character for set pieces. Stream The Moon (2023) online on iFILM.