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Christmas in August

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Producing House

It's a sweltering summer, but Jung-won, a terminally ill, thirty-something photographer, is already in the winter of his life when he begins a tentative romance with a young traffic cop who doesn't know about his condition. Is their relationship doomed before it even begins?

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1998-01-24

Runtime: 97 mins

Director: Hur Jin-ho

Writer: Hur Jin-ho, Oh Seung-uk, Shin Dong-hwan

Spoken language: 한국어/조선말

Genres: Drama, Romance

Original title: Christmas in August

Production Companies: Sidus

Production Countries: South Korea

Reviews

b

badelf
A thirty-something photographer, Jung-Won (Han Suk-kyu), strikes up a potentially romantic relationship with a twenty-something parking enforcer. Unbeknownst to her, and he won't tell her, his time left to live is rather limited. The film is nice, and actually nicely paced and photographed. I didn't think there was enough meat on the bones though. We have good character from Han Suk-kyu. The other characters in the story a far too thin, leaving the whole effect rather lacking.
2022-08-18

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