A Werewolf Boy
| A Werewolf Boy | |
|---|---|
.jpg) |
|
| Hangul | |
| Hanja | 늑대 |
| Revised Romanization | Neukdae Sonyeon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Nŭkdae Sonyŏn |
| Directed by | Jo Sung-hee |
| Produced by | Kim Su-jin Yu in-beom Jeong Tae-seong |
| Written by | Jo Sung-hee |
| Starring |
Song Joong-ki Park Bo-young |
| Music by | Shim Hyun-jung |
| Cinematography | Choi Sang-muk |
| Edited by | Nam Na-yeong |
|
Production
company |
Bidangil Pictures
|
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
|
Release date
|
|
|
Running time
|
122 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$41.5 million |
A Werewolf Boy (Hangul: 늑대소년; RR: Neukdae Sonyeon; lit. "Wolf Boy") is a 2012 South Korean fantasy romance film in which a beautiful teenage girl (Park Bo-young) is sent to a country house for her health, where she befriends and attempts to civilize a feral boy (Song Joong-ki) she discovers on the grounds — but the beast inside him is constantly waiting to burst out.
Director Jo Sung-hee first wrote the script while studying at the Korean Academy of Film Arts and the script went through several rewrites before it was finalized in its current form. This is Jo's commercial debut; he previously directed the arthouse flick End of Animal and the short film Don't Step Out of the House.
A Werewolf Boy had its world premiere in the "Contemporary World Cinema" section of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, then screened at the 17th Busan International Film Festival before its theatrical release on October 31, 2012. It quickly rose up the box office charts to become the most successful Korean melodrama of all time.
Kim Sun-yi, an elderly woman in her sixties living in the US, receives a phone call about the sale of her old family home back in South Korea. Returning to her homeland, she's met by granddaughter Eun-joo, and they drive to the house in the country and stay the night. Sun-yi recalls how 47 years ago when she was a teenage girl in 1965, she moved from Seoul along with her widowed mother and sister Sun-ja to a remote valley to undergo a period of convalescence after suffering problems with her lungs. The Kims lived in genteel poverty at the mercy of their arrogant and foppish landlord, Ji-tae, son of the business partner of Sun-yi's late father. Because of her delicate health, the beautiful yet introverted Sun-yi lives an isolated life in the country home, without any friends her age.
...
Wikipedia