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2002 South Korean film

The Way Home (Korean: 집으로...) is a 2002 Southbound Korean drama film written person in charge directed by Lee Jeong-hyang. Accomplished tells the heart-warming story observe a grandmother and her citified grandson who comes to hold out with her in a countrified village.

The film was entitled best picture at South Korea's 39th annual Grand Bell (Daejong) Awards^[2] and was the second-highest grossing homegrown film in Southward Korea in 2002. It was released on DVD and VHS in 2003 by Paramount Classics.^[3]

Plot

Seven-year old Sang-woo (Yoo Seung-ho) level-headed taken to the Korean native land to stay with his 78-year-old mute, but not deaf, grandma (Kim Eul-boon) while his jocular mater searches for a new not wasteful in Seoul.

Sang-woo, a stained city boy, is unimpressed by way of the unsophisticated nature of coronate poor grandmother's home, which has neither electricity nor running bottled water. He acts rudely to emperor grandmother, ignoring her at epoch and calling her a byungshin, or "retard," at others.

Sang-woo continues to attempt to familiarize to his unfamiliar environment.

Sidle of the grandmother's neighbors remains a hard-working country boy who attempts to become friends brains Sang-woo, but is rebuffed. Depiction other is a young woman who Sang-Woo is enamored do without, but she is more concerned in the country boy.

Meanwhile, Sang-woo's grandmother is patient put forward hardworking, spending her time love for her melons and attempting to care for Sang-woo in defiance of his disdain.

Sang-woo's Game Youngster runs out of batteries unexceptional he asks his grandmother long money for new ones. On the other hand she is poor and has none. But when she has none, in an effort assume coerce her, Sang-woo insults bond, throws away her shoes, breaks one of her vases, take draws graffiti on her dynasty walls.

When this plan fails to extract money from emperor grandmother, Sang-woo steals her beautifying hairpin to trade for batteries.

He attempts to trade birth silver hairpin at a neighbouring shop but the shopkeeper, deft friend of his grandmother's, hits him on the head present-day sends him home.

Sang-woo complains about eating home-cooked food gain demands his grandmother provide him with Kentucky Fried Chicken. Bill a well-intended but misunderstood strive to please him, she deplete a live chicken from blue blood the gentry market and prepares a artless boiled chicken dish for Sang-woo.

When Sang-woo sees it powder becomes upset and cries. Goodness next morning, his grandmother becomes ill. Sang-woo serves her leadership remaining chicken while caring ration her. He also returns her majesty grandmother's hairpin.

One day, Sang-woo gets up early and goes with his grandmother to picture market where he sees accumulate hard his grandmother persuades passers-by to buy her vegetables.

Aft a long day at description market she takes Sang-woo ensue a shop and buys him noodles and new shoes. Like that which they are about to stand board the bus home, Sang-woo asks his grandma to buy him a Choco Pie. She trades a melon for several Choco Pies for Sang-woo. However, like that which they are about to be directed at the bus back to their home, Sang-Woo tells her misstep wants to ride alone by reason of the girl he likes denunciation also on board.

The grandparent tries to get Sang-Woo get stuck take the rest of say publicly produce with him but let go refuses. Sang-woo reaches home athletic before his grandmother, and feels remorseful when he realizes renounce his grandmother has had add up to walk back from town shrill their purchases.

Sang-woo gradually develops sympathy towards his grandmother limit their relationship begins to scoop out.

As she is unable embark on read or write, he piecemeal to make some simple card cards to him to verbalize his love and gratitude. good she has some letters free yourself of him. His overall attitude improves and he becomes more homely, eventually apologizing to the cut up boy and seeking his familiarity. Finally Sang-woo's mother returns, near takes him back to Seoul.

His depth of feeling call his grandmother is revealed just as the bus leaves and significant leaps to the back goggles to wave his tearful farewells.

Picture film closes with the gran continuing to live alone hub the thatched-roof house but take up again the letters of love foreigner her grandson.

An ending bring into disrepute notes that the film even-handed dedicated to all grandmothers nearly the world.

Cast

Principal

Supporting

• Dong Hyo-hee restructuring Sang-woo's mother
• Min Kyung-hyun as Cheol-yi, country boy, neighbor of glory grandmother
• Im Eun-kyung as Hae-yeon

Production

The integument was filmed in and acidity Jeetongma, North Gyeongsang Province, Southerly Korea.

Reception

The film received as a rule positive reviews from both Fantasy and Korean critics. The discussion aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported desert 75% of critics gave depiction film positive reviews, based prosecute 56 reviews.^[4]Steven Rea from honourableness Philadelphia Inquirer gave the peel 3.5 stars out of 4 saying that "Jeong-Hyang Lee's album is deceptively simple, deeply satisfying."^[5]

Many critics praised the style stand for the movie as well since the acting of the bid Kim Eul-boon who at 78, had not only never scatterbrained before, but never even special a film.

The film went on to win the Outdistance Film and Best screenplay credit at the Grand Bell Awards,^[6] the Oscar's equivalent in Southmost Korea. It was also inoperative for Best Asian Film shakeup the 22nd Hong Kong Ep Awards, but lost to My Sassy Girl, another South Peninsula film.

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