Christmas in August (1998) on Netflix
Jung-won, a thirty-something photographer, is terminally ill. Da-rim, a traffic cop, needs photographs of parking offenders developed in a hurry, and she keeps returning to his shop.
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Plot summary
Jung-won is in his thirties and runs a photography shop. After a failed engagement he lives with his sister Jung-sook, her husband and their child, and his father. Da-rim works as a parking agent, and she comes to the shop for pictures of parking offenders, printed fast enough to serve as evidence against them. Something clicks between them. She comes by more often, and feelings grow on both sides. Their romance has barely begun when Jung-won learns that the health problems he has been having are a terminal disease. He says nothing to Da-rim about it, and she goes on visiting the shop.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Christmas in August (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Korean filmmakers drew on Christmas in August: actor Jang Hyuk reportedly studied it for his comeback role in the MBC drama Thank You, and assistant director Park Heung-sik took its scenes of Jung-won washing rice and teaching his father the VCR remote control for his film Bravo, My Life!. Its muffled weeping scene turned up in My Mother, the Mermaid.
- The funeral portrait of singer Kim Kwang-seok inspired Hur Jin-ho's directorial debut, Christmas in August, and the film includes a scene of a lonely Jung-won singing Kim's song "In the Street".
- Hur Jin-ho purposely made the scenes of Christmas in August very still and slow, aiming to give the film the sense of a photograph so the audience could observe every detail.
