A chilling love story that challenges the concept of mortality, Epitaph was co-directed by the Jung Brothers, who were honored with the New Director award at the Pusan Film Critics Awards. The film also received international recognition when it screened in the Zabaltegi-New Directors section of the 2007 San Sebastian International Film Festival. Unlike traditional horror films, which rely on instant gratification via sudden scary images and sound effects, Epitaph brings beauty and finesse to the genre with exquisite cinematography and an intricate plot. Hailed by critics for its originality as well as first-class performances by Kim Tae Woo (Woman on the Beach), Kim Bo Kyung (Blue Sky), Jin Goo (Humanist), and Lee Dong Gyu (Taegukgi), Epitaph is an illuminating vision of darkness.

Epitaph opens in Kyung Sung, the capital of 1940s Japan-occupied Korea. Ahn Seng Hospital lies in the center of the city, representing the twin glories of Japanese Imperialism and western modernization. Two doctors, In Young (Kim Bo Kyung) and her husband Dong Won (Kim Tae Woo), return from their studies in Tokyo to work at the prestigious hospital. There they meet Jung Nam, an intern who feels trapped in his arranged marriage to the hospital director's daughter, and Soo In, a genius who limps on a crippled, lame leg. The city is in terror from an at-large serial murderer, and in the midst of this, a ten-year-old girl wheels into the hospital, the only survivor of a car accident that left a whole family dead. Oppressed by the tragedy of such an event and the helplessness at their own secret love affairs, the four doctors find themselves inching closer to their own mortality.