Yoo Ji-tae : 2012
The story of Soo-young, a Korean man in his thirties living on the bottom rung of society and Mai Ratima, a 22-year-old Thai girl who accepts a mail-order marriage in order to realise her Korean dream. To support her sister and Alzheimer's-afflicted mother back in Thailand, Mai Ratima enters into an arranged marriage with mentally challenged Sang-pil. Stuck in the drab coastal town of Pohang, Mai is physically and emotionally abused by her in-laws. She endures the daily harangues of her mother-in-law and sexual harassment by her brother-in-law, Sang-rim. When her visa renewal comes up she narrowly escapes deportation thanks to the spur-of-the-moment kindness of Soo-young, a social outcast who can't even afford to renew his national ID. Mai and Soo-young fall in love and elope together to Seoul. But their days of happiness are soon shattered when Young-jin, a hostess, enters their relationship, slowly turning it into a love triangle. Eventually, Soo-young decides to leave Mai. One day, when life becomes unbearable for Soo-young, he goes in search of Mai, only to find that she is not who she used to be. Depicting the process by which a couple deviates from the accepted rules of society and then endures a hostile reality as a result of their choices, Yoo Ji-tae's directorial debut premiered at Busan International Film Festival 2012.
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