Romantic Heaven

Romantic Heaven
Directed by Jang Jin
Produced by Kang Woo-suk
Written by Jang Jin
Starring Kim Su-ro
Kim Dong-wook
Kim Ji-won
Music by Lee Byung-woo
Cinematography Kim Jun-young
Distributed by Cinema Service
Release dates
  • March 24, 2011 (2011-03-24)
Running time
 117 minutes
Country South Korea
Language Korean
Box office US$488,024[1]

Romantic Heaven (Hangul: 로맨틱 헤븐; RR: Romaentik Hebeun) is a 2011 South Korean melodrama about fate, love, loss, and redemption.[2][3]

Though the premise is sentimental, dealing with a variety of characters and their relationships in both life and the afterlife, it is very much in line with writer-director Jang Jin's previous works, combining elements of several different genres, including romance, comedy, drama, ghost and even police thriller into an eccentric, playful and imaginative film.[4][5]

Plot

Three seemingly disconnected people cross paths at a hospital: Part one, "Mom," focuses on the character of Mimi, whose mother is battling cancer, and needs a bone marrow transplant if she is to have any hope of surviving. With great difficulty, doctors identify a potential donor, but then the man goes into flight after being accused of murder. Hoping to find him, Mimi becomes acquainted with the police detectives assigned to his case. Part two, "Wife," concerns a lawyer named Min-gyu who has recently lost his spouse. Amidst his grief, he is distracted by the fact that he can't find a bag that she had brought with her to the hospital, and which contained her personal diary. In the meantime, he is visited by an ex-convict who has a score to settle. Part three, "Girl," focuses on Ji-wook, a taxi driver whose grandfather is on the verge of death. One day his grandmother tells him that for all of his life, her husband has been unable to forget a young woman he met in his youth. It is in part four, "Romantic Heaven," that the various threads are brought together and ultimately resolved. As fate would have it, their counterparts are gazing down upon their loved ones from heaven, dealing with their own version of remorse and regret.[4][6][7]

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "Romantic Heaven (2011)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. ↑ Kim, No-ah (24 March 2011). "This Week's Cultural News". Arirang News. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  3. ↑ "Director Jang Jin, "Kim Soo-ro was different than usual"". Hancinema. 15 March 2011. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  4. 1 2 Mudge, James (16 August 2011). "Romantic Heaven (2011) Movie Review". Beyond Hollywood. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  5. ↑ Lee, Ga-on (30 March 2011). "Film director Jang Jin's Song Picks". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  6. ↑ Paquet, Darcy. "Romantic Heaven". Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
  7. ↑ Kerr, Elizabeth (21 March 2011). "Romantic Heaven: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

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