South Korea Synopsis
기기괴괴 성형수
Beauty Water looks like a common skin cosmetic. But unlike other cosmetics, people can sculpt their skin with it like molding clay and change their appearance. An ordinary girl, Yaeji, comes across the 'Beauty Water' by chance, and her endless desire to be the most beautiful woman brings her unimaginable disaster.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Beauty Water. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
The 2019–2021 South Korea Window
In the crowded 2019-2021 South Korea release window, Beauty Water sits at #249 of 261. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.
#1Break the Silence: The Movie
★ 9.2 · 2020
#22020 (G)I-DLE Online Concert 'I-Land : Who Am I'
★ 9.2 · 2020
#3Undercover
★ 9.0 · 2021
#4BLACKPINK: Arena Tour 2018 'Special Final in Kyocera Dome Osaka'
★ 8.7 · 2019
#5It's Okay to Not Be Okay
★ 8.6 · 2020
#6Mr. Queen
★ 8.6 · 2020
#7Parasite
★ 8.5 · 2019
#8True Beauty
★ 8.5 · 2020
The 2020s South Korea Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2020s in South Korea, 301 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Beauty Water premiered alongside 89 others.
Animation + Drama in South Korea
8 South Korea titles in our catalog blend the Animation and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Beauty Water itself).
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 89 other South Korea films in 2020.
The 1155th South Korea title from South Korea we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our South Korea catalog contains 1,397 titles in total (931 films).
Audience Engagement
34 audience reviews — more than 61% of South Korea films in our index.
Review volume (61th percentile) outruns trending popularity (21th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Beauty Water, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- psychology · 2
- distortion · 1
- vanity · 1
- based on webcomic or webtoon · 27
- based on comic · 58
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,220 of 1,397 South Korea films indexed here (13th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -1.1 points below the South Korea average of 6.9/10.
Among South Korea Animation productions specifically: #39 of 50 (top 78%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | South Korea |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Korean |
| Production Companies | SSAnimnet Inc., Studio Animal |
| Runtime | 1h 25m |
| Release Date | September 9, 2020 |
| IMDb | tt12354886 |