An Affair
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Hangul | 정사 |
Hanja | 情事 |
Revised Romanization | Jeongsa |
McCune–Reischauer | Chŏngsa |
Directed by | E J-yong |
Written by | Kim Dae-woo E J-yong |
Produced by | Oh Jeong-wan Lee Se-ho |
Starring | Lee Mi-sook Lee Jung-jae |
Cinematography | Kim Young-cheol |
Edited by | Hahm Sung-won |
Music by | |
Release date |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
An Affair (Korean: 정사; RR: Jeongsa) is a 1998 South Korean film. The quiet film about a woman who falls in love with her sister's fiancé was the seventh-highest-grossing Korean film of 1998 and won the Best Asian Film award at the 1999 Newport Beach International Film Festival.
Plot[]
Seo-hyun is an ordinary housewife in her late thirties with a ten-year-old son and a successful architect husband. For Seo-hyun, life is a series of banal routines, but she is well provided with upper class comforts. Her sheltered life is suddenly threatened with the appearance of U-in, her much younger sister's attractive new fiancé. U-in approaches Seo-hyun and attraction evolves into a passionate affair. Seo-hyun is aware that falling for the younger man will destroy her and her family, but she cannot help herself and the new feelings that are stirring within...
Cast list[]
Lee Mi-sook as Seo-hyun
Lee Jung-jae as U-in
Kim Min as Ji-hyun
References[]
External links[]
- 1998 films
- Korean-language films
- 1990s romance films
- South Korean romance films
- Erotic romance films
- Films directed by E J-yong
- Films with screenplays by Kim Dae-woo
- 1990s Korean-language films
- South Korean films
- South Korean erotic films
- 1998 directorial debut films
- South Korean film stubs
- Erotic film stubs