Happiness | |
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Hangul | |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Haengbok |
McCune–Reischauer | Haengbok |
Directed by | Hur Jin-ho |
Produced by | Jo Seong-woo Kang Bong-rae Lee Yoo-jin |
Written by |
Hur Jin-ho Lee Suk-yeon Seo Yoo-min Shin Joon-ho |
Starring |
Hwang Jung-min Im Soo-jung |
Music by | Jo Seong-woo |
Cinematography | Kim Hyung-koo |
Edited by | Choi Jae-geun |
Distributed by | Showbox |
Release date
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Running time
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124 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Budget | US$3,500,000 |
Box office | US$8,313,363 |
Happiness (Hangul: 행복; RR: Haengbok) is a 2007 South Korean film, directed by Hur Jin-ho and starring Hwang Jung-min and Im Soo-jung. It is a love story about two people who meet while battling serious illnesses.
When stricken with a terminal disease, Young-su leaves his careless high life in the city, live-in girlfriend and dwindling business. He retreats to a sanatorium in the countryside in order to treat his illness, where he meets Eun-hee, a young woman who is a resident patient there. Soon they develop feelings for each other and leave the sanatorium together to live in a small but cozy farm house. Their health improves dramatically but when Young-su's friends from the city come for a visit, he starts to wonder if he should abandon mundane rural village and return to his former lifestyle.