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River
Why this pick
Like 20th Century Girl, it treats first love and female friendship with tender nostalgia, tracing how youthful devotion and missed timing leave lasting emotional marks.
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MOVIE2022 2h 0m KOR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Its bright school-age romantic energy gradually deepens into an aching, years-spanning look at timing, memory, and the lingering pull of a formative love.
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Ditto
Why this pick
This campus romance uses a nostalgic period texture and an unusual connection across distance to create the same soft, sincere buildup toward emotional longing.
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The Beauty Inside
Why this pick
It shares the polished, heartfelt Korean melodrama tone: a romance tested by an impossible barrier, with tenderness and emotional stakes foregrounded over plot mechanics.
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Our Times
Why this pick
This exuberant 1990s-set coming-of-age romance balances friendship, school crushes, and pop-nostalgic sweetness before finding a more wistful emotional register.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kim Yoo-jung
Na Bo Ra
Byeon Woo-seok
Pung Woon Ho
Park Jung-woo
Baek Hyun Jin
Roh Yoon-seo
Yeon Du