A fake marriage for chores turns into something messier than the landlord ever imagined.
An unmarried man in his mid-thirties meets a homeless woman. He allows her to live with him. In return, she must do the household chores. However, to avoid trouble from their conservative landlord, they must pass themselves off as married.
Acting
Shin Seong-il's suppressed desperation is painfully specific.
Direction
Lee Won-se makes cramped apartments feel like entire worlds.
Director
Lee Won-se
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during South Korea's rapid industrialization, the film captures urban displacement and collapsing traditional family structures before they became dominant narratives.
The title's 'peanuts' references both meager wages and the snack Ju-ri sells—a bitter joke about what survival actually costs. The 'affair' was never really the relationship, but the pretense of one.
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