Everyone around her calls it coincidence. Ji Mo knows better: she can see monsters that nobody else in the room can.
What is Monster Run about?
Ji Mo has spent years explaining away what she sees, unwilling to admit that the strange shapes around her are real. That changes when a monster appears in the supermarket where she works, and she crosses paths with a monster hunter known as Meng. Together they confirm what she had been denying: monsters genuinely exist alongside ordinary people, hidden in plain sight. The discovery pulls the two of them into a much larger conflict neither expected, blending fantasy creatures with a science-fiction edge and action sequences built around Ji Mo's newly accepted gift for seeing what others cannot.
About the cast
Shawn Yue and Jessie Li lead the film, with Kara Hui, Qiao Shan, Tu Men, Yutian Wang, Yang Di, and Wang Zhener filling out the supporting cast drawn into the widening monster conflict. The ensemble moves between quieter character beats and the film's fantasy-action set pieces, giving the story's central partnership room to develop as the stakes escalate.
Context & significance
Director Henri Wong works across genre lines here, folding fantasy, science fiction, drama, and thriller elements into one production from mainland China and Hong Kong. That mix is common in regional genre filmmaking aimed at audiences who want spectacle alongside a grounded human story, and Monster Run leans on its central pairing to hold those different registers together across its roughly 104-minute runtime. The premise of an ordinary person discovering a hidden supernatural world sitting beside the everyday one gives the film a recognizable hook without requiring viewers to know any wider franchise or mythology going in.
Watching Monster Run on Ktime
Monster Run is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making it accessible to Farsi-speaking viewers in either format. The platform's Farsi interface is built for Persian-speaking audiences, the film's page is free to read for any visitor, and watching it requires only a K-Time account login.