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Director:
Chang-dong Lee
Writer:
Chang-dong Lee (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
7 May 2004 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
Have you really loved someone?
Plot:
Jong-du, a young man just out of prison for manslaughter, is a social misfit: fidgety, snuffling, laughing inappropriately... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
11 wins & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
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User Comments:
It's not sweet, but beautiful more (29 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
Kyung-gu Sol ... Jong-du Hong
So-ri Moon ... Gong-ju Han
Nae-sang Ahn ... Jong-Il Hong
Seung-wan Ryoo ... Jong-Sae Hong
Kwi-Jung Chu ... Jong-Sae's Wife
Jin-gu Kim ... Mrs. Hong
Byung-ho Son ... Sang-Shik Han
Ga-hyun Yun ... Sang-Shik's Wife
Myeong-shin Park ... Woman Neighbor
Kyung-geun Park ... Woman Neighbor's Husband
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dae-gwan Han ... Detective 2
Jin-seob Han ... Detective 1
Seo-hie Ko
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Directed by
Chang-dong Lee 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Chang-dong Lee  writer

Produced by
Sung-min Choi .... executive producer
Min-cheul Cho .... producer
Kaynam Hyung .... executive producer
Jeon Jay .... producer
Jun-dong Lee .... co-producer
Gye-nam Myeong .... producer
 
Original Music by
Jae-jin Lee 
 
Cinematography by
Yeong-taek Choi 
 
Film Editing by
Hyun Kim 
 
Art Direction by
Jum-hee Shin 
 
Costume Design by
Sun-young Cha 
 
Sound Department
Seung-cheol Lee .... sound
Seung-yeop Lee .... sound editor
 

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Additional Details

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Runtime:
Canada:132 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | Japan:132 min | Korea:132 min | USA:133 min
Country:
South Korea
Language:
Korean
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Hong Kong:III | UK:15 | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:18 | Japan:PG-12
Company:
Dream Venture Capital more

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Featured in The 20th IFP Independent Spirit Awards (2005) (TV) more

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13 out of 17 people found the following comment useful.
It's not sweet, but beautiful, 27 February 2004
10/10
Author: gamutoflove from Tokyo, Japan

Before watching this film, I thought of Korean movies as sweet, tear-dripping melodoramas. And I was waiting for a movie to totally change my stereo type. So, here comes this movie. Yes, it is about a physically challenged person. Yes, it is about prejudice and sexual violence. This might not be a movie that many Korean movie (Last Presents or Love letter...) lovers like. This movie is not sweet, but very bitter. The people around the two protagonists seems terribly selfish. But most of us are on that side, not the two outsided protagonists. Watching them treated badly by the world full of prejudice which we might commit in real life,is really painful. But still, the live the protagonists lead are very beautiful, sometimes even laughable.

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