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When a prolific scientist on the verge of revealing a cutting-edge ecological technology is levitated into the air by a mysterious, sentient vapor, then inflated and burst like a pulpy water balloon on live television, journalists, police officers, politicians, yakuza, and wannabe YouTubers descend into chaos. They scramble to explain what happened and why, and…

In the opening scene of Human Vapor, the first collaboration between Netflix and historic Japanese company Toho, Korean showrunner Yeon Sang-ho and Japanese director Shinzo Katayama deftly establish how science-fiction has scaled up since 1960, the release year of the original The Human Vapor film.