Blind

Blind (2011) is a South Korean crime thriller directed by Ahn Sang-hoon from an original screenplay by Choi Min-seok. It premiered at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival on July 22, 2011, and opened in domestic theaters on August 11, 2011. Kim Ha-neul stars as Min Soo-ah, a former police cadet who lost her sight — and her younger brother, Dong-hyun (Park Bo-gum) — in a car accident years earlier, and who has since kept her distance from the force.

One night, Soo-ah is riding in a taxi when the driver strikes a pedestrian and drives off. Unable to see the license plate, she relies on the sound of the engine, the route taken, and fragments of overheard conversation, and brings what she has to Detective Jo (Jo Hee-bong). A motorcycle courier, Kwon Gi-seob (Yoo Seung-ho), comes forward claiming he also witnessed the crash, though his story keeps shifting under questioning. As Soo-ah and Jo work through taxi logs and hospital records, the trail leads to a respected gynecologist, Dr. Choi Myung-jin (Yang Young-jo), who has been abducting women for years without drawing suspicion.

Once Choi realizes Soo-ah can identify him by voice and habit rather than sight, the investigation turns into a hunt for her. The film's second half follows Detective Jo's murder and a final confrontation at an orphanage, where Soo-ah uses the same heightened senses that made her a witness to corner Choi before backup arrives. A search of his property afterward turns up the remains of several earlier victims, closing a string of disappearances Jo had quietly been tracking.

Blind earned Kim Ha-neul the Best Actress award at both the 48th Grand Bell Awards and the 32nd Blue Dragon Film Awards in 2012, while Choi Min-seok won the Grand Bell for Best Screenplay. The premise has since been licensed abroad four times: as the Chinese film The Witness (2015), the Japanese Mienai Mokugeki-sha (2019), the Tamil-language Netrikann (2021), and the Hindi-language Blind (2023).