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Late Blossom

2011 · 118 min

A tender, quietly devastating look at late-life love and devotion that creeps up on you and leaves you quietly sobbing.

Directed by
Choo Chang-min
Genres
Drama, Romance
Starring
Lee Soon-jae, Song Jae-ho, Yun So-jeong
Tagline
Never say, never again. They bloom into love of lifetime, again.
Overview
Follows the lives of two couples who live in the same neighborhood. Kim Man-Suk delivers milk on a motorbike at dawn. He curses a lot, but actually has a warm heart. One day when he goes up a slope, he meets Ms. Song - a lonely woman who works hards by collecting and selling scrap paper. Man-Suk feels something special toward Ms. Song. Jang Kun-Bong works in a parking lot. Jang Kun-Bong has a wife who suffers from Alzheimer's. He works from dawn until late at night. After work he comes home and takes care of his wife.

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Directed by
Choo Chang-min
Genres
Drama, Romance
Starring
Lee Soon-jae, Song Jae-ho, Yun So-jeong
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • aging
  • family
  • grief
  • loneliness
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance7
Tension2
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Choo Chang-min
Written by
Lee Man-hee, Choo Chang-min, Kim Sang-su, Kim Yong-deok
Starring
Lee Soon-jae, Song Jae-ho, Yun So-jeong, Kim Soo-mi, Oh Dal-su, Song Ji-hyo, Kim Bi-bi, Park Nam-hee
Runtime
118 min
Country
South Korea
Languages
Korean

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