About a man and a woman who miss each other but cannot meet. Young-ho, a young man who took several tries to get into college, doesn't have any special goals in life, and starts exchanging letters with someone.
Acting
Kang Ha-neul's thousand-yard stare should be studied.
Cinematography
Rain-soaked Seoul never looked this lonely.
Writing
Letters that actually sound written by humans.
Director
Cho Jin-mo
Kang Ha-neul
Young-ho
Chun Woo-hee
So-hee
Kang So-ra
Soo-jin
Lee Sul
So-yeon
Lim Ju-hwan
Young-hwan
Lee Hang-na
Mother
Lee Yang-hee
Father
Park Se-hyun
Student
Lee Ye-hwan
Cram School Student
Kim Sung-kyun
Teacher
Ko Gun-han
Jong-guk
Nam Hyeon-woo
Student
Kim Min-seo
Student
Kang Young-suk
Book Worm
Choi Myeong-bin
Young So-hee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Korean 'slow cinema' romance peaked in the early 2020s as audiences craved intimacy over spectacle.
The secondhand bookstore scenes were shot at actual closing shops in Seoul's dying book district.
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