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Writers:
Dae-woo Kim (writer)
Je-yong Lee (writer)
Release Date:
3 October 1998 (South Korea) more
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1 win more
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Hanging in the balance more (2 total)

Cast

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Jung-Jae Lee ... Woo In
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Min Kim ... Ji-Hyun
Mi-suk Lee ... So-Hyun (as Mi-sook Lee)
Young-chang Song ... Jun-Il
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Also Known As:
An Affair (International: English title)
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France:107 min
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Hanging in the balance, 14 April 2007
Author: Atavisten from Tellus

Somewhere in between Wong Kar-Wai's 'In the Mood for Love' and a TV-drama, this movie about adultery from South-Korea somehow manages to appeal to a broader audience while retaining integrity movie-as-art wise. Lee Je-young was unbeknown-est to me, but I just realized he made three movies (and quite different ones at that) with a widely popular appeal that I really enjoyed unrelated to each other.

This is a doomed relationship, the interesting thing is that they are not judged in any way in the portrayal and it therefore becomes a meditation on love, the impermanence of it and of life itself. Quite profound.

Lee Mi-suk is amazing in the role, and looks better than ever as 38.

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