The folk legend of Gumiho, the nine-tailed fox who wants to become human, first appeared in the 1994 film The Fox With Nine Tails, starring Go So Young and Jung Woo Sung. Twelve long years later, Lee Hyung Gon, the man responsible for the storyboard of one of Korea’s first real blockbusters, has come back, dedicating his debut film once again to those Gumiho. And this time, there’s a whole family of them! Full of musical sequences and wacky fun, The Fox Family stars Joo Hyun (All For Love), Park Si Yeon (Yeon Gaesomun and My Girl), and Ha Jung Woo (The Unforgiven and Time) as the bushy-tailed spirits, alongside Park Joon Kyu (My Wife is a Gangster 2) as a human detective.

A foolish but lovely father (Joo Hyun), a preppy and sexy daughter (Park Si Yeon), and a dorky son (Ha Jung Woo) make up the film’s titular fox family. The Gumiho family runs a circus and they all share one common dream: they want to become human. The problem is in order to complete the transition, they need to eat human liver. But times have changed, and now only little kids come to see the circus. All of a sudden a murder takes place, and finally an adult shows up in the form of a detective (Park Joon Kyu) investigating this strange family. You’d think all their problems would be solved, but the family takes a liking to what is supposed to become their next meal.