Gyeongseong Creature: Gyeongseong (the old name for Seoul) March 1945, the 36th year of the Japanese occupation of Korea, Rebels are savagely suppressed. Jang Tae-sang (Park Seo-joon) appears generally indifferent to what is going on, he owns the biggest pawn shop in Gyeongseong, rubs an information network he's generally a bit like Rick from Casablanca. But his idyllic life comes under threat when the mistress of the Japanese chief of police goes missing, unless Jang finds her his business will be seized, Jang links up with a Manchurian woman, Yoon Chae-ok (Han So-hee) who specialises in finding missing people. Her skills are renowned but her one failure is to find her mother who disappeared ten years ago. To make things even more interesting a Japanese Military Scientific unit is in town and is carrying out biological experiments on prisoners and abducted Koreans. While this story is also about the developing affection between Jang and Yoon the series has a very dark tone, only the vein of (sometimes slap-stick) humour which runs through it leavens the mood a little. Korean citizens are treated with extreme brutality by the Japanese, they are not part of a Co-Prosperity Sphere, they are very much second class citizens, Even the more mundane experiments have horrific effects on the victims. The gradual creation of the main monster unfolds in frightening detail. Much slaughter and bloodletting ensues. A story of rescue attempts, rebellion, horror, romance and science fiction with a few plot twists and surprises, usually unveiled through flashbacks. Directed by Chung Dong-yoon and Roh Young-sub, Written by Kang Eun-kyung. Ten episodes on Netflix, 8/10.