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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:
(6 articles)
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the holy grail for those looking for love... 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
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Hong Kong:III | UK:15 | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:18 | Japan:PG-12
Company:
Dream Venture Capital more

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

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16 out of 20 people found the following comment useful.
the holy grail for those looking for love..., 23 July 2004
10/10
Author: mratchford1 from Las Vegas, Nevada

I misread the synopsis before seeing this movie. I thought it was to be something like Clockwork Orange's 'ultraviolent' Beethoven groovin character. Auf dem Gegenteil! Instead, I was strait-jacked to my theater seat with a ball gag and shown --- love.The director 'has you at hello' with his mastery of inducing the vicarious experience of being judge, jury and executioner. While at first, I wanted to serve merely as a lawmaker/enforcer, it later began to dawn on my oh so thick skull, that here was a stereogram of love. You look at a stereogram and at first see nothing to justify further indulgence. Then you keep on looking anyway and get your reward. OASIS reward for looking into the private lives of the two lead characters is knowing once and for all: the meaning of love. Love is.

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