Credited cast: | |||
Hyo-Joo Han | ... | Hong Yi-soo (as Hyo-ju Han) | |
Seo-Joon Park | ... | Woo-jin (as Seo Joon Park) | |
Juri Ueno | ... | Woo-jin | |
Jin-wook Lee | ... | Woo-jin | |
Ju-hyuk Kim | ... | Woo-jin | |
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Yeon-Seok Yoo | ... | Woo-jin / Narrator |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Ko Asung | ... | Woo-jin (as Ah-sung Ko) | |
Seong-woo Bae | ... | Woo-jin | |
Woo-hee Chun | ... | Woo-jin | |
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Ji-han Do | ... | Woo-jin |
Karel Hermánek Jr. | ... | Woo-jin | |
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Da-mi Hong | ... | Woo-jin |
Eui-soo Jang | ... | Woon-jin 106 | |
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Dal-hwan Jo | ... | Woo-jin |
Dae-Myung Kim | ... | Woo-jin |
Woo-jin wakes up in a different body everyday, regardless of age, gender and nationality. Sometimes he's a man, a woman, old, young, or even a foreigner. He's the same person on the inside, but on the outside he's always someone new. Looking at a different face in the mirror every morning is hard for him to get used to. The only constant in his life is the girl he loves, Yi-soo, who knows his secret and loves him anyway. Each time he transforms, Woo-jin must figure out how to reunite with Yi-soo. Written by nnq2603
South Korea is no stranger to putting some really good and entertaining movies out there, and "The Beauty Inside" (aka "Byuti insaideu") is definitely a movie that fits into that description.
Now, I wasn't familiar with the movie or its storyline prior to happen to come across it by sheer luck, and of course with my love for the Asian cinema I just had to give it a go. And I am very glad that I did, because "The Beauty Inside" turned out to be a rather interesting and beautiful movie.
The story in all its simplicity is Woo-Jin who wakes up every day in a different body; a change that spans both gender, nationality and age. One day he may be a Japanese middle aged man, only to wake up as an African teenage girl the next, and so on and so on. He falls in love with a salesperson at a local furniture vendor, and lets her in on the secret of his life, and she falls in love with him in return.
The storyline is quite different and unlike anything I have ever seen before, and that really was a great and refreshing change of pace. The storyline in "The Beauty Inside" is nicely paced and really well composed by writers Seon-jeong Kim, Jeong-ye Park and Kyung-hee Noh. And director Jong-Yeol Baek really brought the story to life so well on the screen.
"The Beauty Inside" has a very expanded list of actors and actresses, most of which portray the Woo-Jin character. I will say that this diversity was really well handled by the numerous actors and actresses that performed in the movie.
While the storyline is beautiful and touching, then I don't see this as a movie that you will be likely to watch more than a single time. It just doesn't have that special quality to it.