Always (Hangul: ?? ???; RR: Ohjik Geudaeman; MR: Ochik k?taeman; lit. Only You) is a 2011 South Korean film directed by Song Il-gon. Starring So Ji-sub and Han Hyo-joo in the lead roles, it is about a romance between an ex-boxer who has closed his heart to the world and a telemarketer who remains spirited despite slowly going blind.
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Hangul | ?? ??? |
Revised Romanization | Ohjik geudaeman |
McCune–Reischauer | Ochik k?taeman |
Directed by | Song Il-gon |
Produced by | Kim Jeong-hui Moon Bo-mi |
Written by | Song Il-gon Roh Hong-jin |
Story by | Jang Hyun-sung |
Starring | So Ji-sub Han Hyo-joo |
Music by | Choe Cheol-su Bang Jun-seok |
Cinematography | Hong Kyung-pyo |
Edited by | Nam Na-yeong |
Production company | HB Entertainment 51K |
Distributed by | Showbox/Mediaplex |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Box office | US$6.2 million |
With online tickets selling out a 2,000-seat outdoor movie theater in a record seven seconds, Always was the opening film of the 2011 Busan International Film Festival.
It was released in theaters on October 20, 2011. In South Korea, the film had a total of 1,027,614 admissions nationwide.
Screenplay
Having closed himself away from the world, former boxer Cheol Min starts a new part-time job as a parking lot attendant. One night, He is sitting in the tiny pay booth in the parking lot and staring at the small television when a young woman, Jung Hwa, walks into the tollbooth. She offers something to Cheol-min and sits next to him. Cheol-min realizes the woman is blind and she is confusing him for the parking attendant who worked there previously. Their lives change forever from this point.
- So Ji-sub as Jang Cheol-min
- Han Hyo-joo as Ha Jung-hwa
- Yun Jong-hwa as Min Tae-sik
- Kang Shin-il as Choi (boxing gym manager)
- Park Chul-min as Coach Bang
- Jo Sung-ha as section chief Choi
- Jin Goo as pottery store owner
- Oh Kwang-rok as Park Chang-soo (man wanted by loan sharks)
- Kim Jeong-hak as team leader Ma
- Kim Mi-kyung as Sister Joanna
- Wie Seung-bae as martial arts champion
- Jung Jae-jin as shift old man
- Min Kyeong-jin as janitor
- Yeom Hye-ran as beauty parlor owner
- Ahn Se-ho as broker
- Choi Gyo-sik as real estate agent
84% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The film was remade in 2014 in Turkey as Sadece Sen, in Kannada in 2015 as Boxer and in Hindi in 2016 as Do Lafzon Ki Kahani.