April Snow
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| Hangul | |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Oechul |
| McCune–Reischauer | Oech'ul |
| Directed by | Hur Jin-ho |
| Produced by | Bae Yong-guk |
| Written by | Shin Joon-ho Lee Won-sik Seo Yu-min Lee Il Hur Jin-ho |
| Starring |
Bae Yong-joon Son Ye-jin |
| Music by | Jo Seong-woo |
| Cinematography | Lee Mo-gae |
| Edited by | Lee Eun-su |
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Production
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Blue Storm Co., Ltd.
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| Distributed by | Show East |
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Release date
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Running time
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105 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$24,873,159 |
April Snow (Hangul: 외출; RR: Oechul; lit. "Outing" or "Going Out") is a 2005 South Korean romantic drama film co-written and directed by Hur Jin-ho, starring Bae Yong-joon and Son Ye-jin.
In-su and Seo-young meet in a hospital after their respective spouses are involved in a car accident. This leads them to discover that their spouses had been having an affair. As In-su and Seo-young stay at the same motel near the hospital to care for their comatose partners, they grow closer while sharing their grief, anger and fear for their loved ones' recovery. Gradually, they find themselves falling in love with each other. But when In-su's wife Su-jin regains consciousness, she tells him that she regrets her past actions, forcing him to make a decision.
Filming began on February 4, 2005 in the seaside town of Samcheok, Gangwon Province.
A four-hour live concert was held on April 24, 2005 at the open-air theater in Yonsei University; some scenes were included in the film.
April Snow wrapped shooting on June 18, 2005 in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province.
The film performed poorly at the domestic box office, grossing US$2,707,442 in South Korea on 809,191 admissions.
April Snow was also released in 10 other Asian countries. And due mostly to actor Bae Yong-joon's Korean Wave popularity, it became a box office success in Japan and China. It became the highest-grossing Korean film in Japan, grossing ¥2.72 billion or US$24.2 million (this record would later be broken by another Son Ye-jin film, A Moment to Remember with ¥2.75 billion).
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