While everyone is searching for Mink, Nim returns to Ba Yan's shrine to pray and sees that the statue has been decapitated.Ī month later, Mink is found in a delirious state in the ruins of her grandfather's factory. The ceremony fails and a possessed Mink attacks her mother before running away. After Mink attempts suicide, Noi thinks that Ba Yan is punishing Mink for refusing to be her host so, without informing Nim, she arranges for another shaman to conduct the transference ceremony.
Nim later learns that Mink had committed incest with Mac, who had actually hanged himself, and thinks that Mac's ghost is haunting Mink so she performs a ritual to appease him, but soon realises he is not responsible. Nim initially believes that Mink's condition is a sign that Ba Yan has selected her to be the next host, so she tries to persuade Noi to let her conduct a transference ceremony for the goddess's spirit to move from her body to Mink's, but Noi refuses. She is fired from her job after her boss discovers that she has been having sex with different men at her workplace. She also hears voices in her head, has nightmares, and experiences debilitating abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding. Mink starts behaving strangely and exhibiting multiple personalities, including those of an attention-seeking child, an old man, a drunkard, and a prostitute. Noi is left with her daughter, Mink, and they currently live with Manit (Nim and Noi's brother) and his family. Wiroj's son, Mac, died in a traffic accident. Wiroj's father killed himself after he was caught committing insurance fraud by burning down his factory in order to claim insurance. Nim attends the funeral of Noi's husband, Wiroj, who died of a heart attack, and reveals that misfortune had befallen the men in his family. She had been chosen to be Ba Yan's host after her sister, Noi, refused to accept the role and converted to Christianity. Ī documentary crew travels to the Isan region of Thailand to interview Nim, a medium/ shaman who claims to be possessed by the spirit of Ba Yan, a local goddess. It is the 6th highest-grossing Korean film of 2021. On the box office front as per Korean Film Council data, it is ranked 15th among all the films released in the year 2021 in South Korea, with gross of US$7.35 million and 831,126 admissions, as of 26 September 2021. The film was adjudged as the best feature film at 25th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival and was awarded with the Bucheon Choice Award for the best film. It was selected as the Thai entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards but was not nominated. It was theatrically released in South Korea on 14 July 2021. The film was premiered at the 25th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival on 11 July 2021. It is a co-production of Thailand's GDH 559 and South Korea's Showbox. The Medium ( Thai: ร่างทรง Rang Song, literally: Mediumship) is a 2021 Thai-South Korean mockumentary supernatural horror film co-written and produced by Na Hong-jin and directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun.
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