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The Day He Arrives
Why this pick
Like Woman on the Beach, it turns a casually drifting visit into an intricate study of male self-mythology, repeated encounters, awkward drinking, and tiny emotional shifts.
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Why this pick
Its spare, conversational romance and self-conscious filmmaker protagonist echo Woman on the Beach, while subtle variations expose how pride and phrasing reshape intimacy.
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Tale of Cinema
Why this pick
A dry, melancholy companion built around an artistically inclined man, chance reconnections, alcohol-fuelled candour, and a playful blurring of lived experience and fiction.
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In Another Country
Why this pick
A seaside retreat becomes a gently comic maze of recurring situations and mismatched desires, closely matching the original’s beachside setting and playful circular structure.
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Like You Know It All
Why this pick
Another mordantly funny portrait of a filmmaker abroad in his own life, where travel, professional vanity, drinking, and ill-advised flirtation reveal more than intended.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Film director and screenwriter Kim Jung-rae asks his friend Won Chang-wook to drive with him from their homes in Seoul to the resort town of Shinduri, on the western coast of South Korea. Chang-wook initially resists, but accepts the request on the condition that he can bring Kim Mun-suk, a composer and aspiring singer whom he describes as being his girlfriend. Jung-rae is writing a treatment for a film titled "About Miracles," concerning the mysterious connections that secure everyday life—themes that play a major role in the work of Hong Sang-Soo.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kim Seung-woo
Director Kim Jung-rae
Go Hyun-jung
Kim Moon-Sook
Lee Ki-woo
Birch Tree Caretaker
Kim Tae-woo
Won Chang-wook