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My Wife's Lover

2015 · 92 min

A slow, uneasy drama where quiet desperation and moral compromise simmer under polite surfaces.

Directed by
So Young-hwan
Genres
Romance
Starring
Kim Tae-jeong, Lee Hyeon-seong, Jeong Tae-min
Tagline
Please help my husband, boss. What would you do for me to help me?
Overview
Mi-yeon, a woman who has lived without her eyes and eyes to take care of her husband and son. The family is everything she can't change with anything in the world. Her husband, Cheol-min, is stressed every day because of a project to win the company's life-saving home shopping broadcast rights. A few days later, when he hears that a competitor has won a home shopping broadcast, Cheol-min visits Hyun-gil, a college senior at home shopping. Hyun-gil said that it was already decided, and her wife Mi-yeon went to the door, and Mi-yeon, a wife, visits Hyun-gil's house to ease her husband's difficulties. Hyun-gil will ask Mi-yeon, who has visited her home, to make a secret offer ...

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Directed by
So Young-hwan
Genres
Romance
Starring
Kim Tae-jeong, Lee Hyeon-seong, Jeong Tae-min
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • betrayal
  • family
  • class
  • power
  • morality
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance7
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Genres
romance
Directed by
So Young-hwan
Starring
Kim Tae-jeong, Lee Hyeon-seong, Jeong Tae-min, Im So-mi
Runtime
92 min
Languages
Korean

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