An Affair
An Affair (Korean: 정사; RR: Jeongsa) is a 1998 South Korean film. The quiet film about a woman who falls in love with her sister's fiancé was the seventh-highest-grossing Korean film of 1998 and won the Best Asian Film award at the 1999 Newport Beach International Film Festival.
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Hangul | 정사 |
Hanja | 情事 |
Revised Romanization | Jeongsa |
McCune–Reischauer | Chŏngsa |
Directed by | E J-yong |
Produced by | Oh Jeong-wan Lee Se-ho |
Written by | Kim Dae-woo E J-yong |
Starring | Lee Mi-sook Lee Jung-jae Song Yeong-chang |
Music by | Jo Seong-woo |
Cinematography | Kim Young-cheol |
Edited by | Hahm Sung-won |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Plot
Seo-hyun is an ordinary housewife in her late thirties with a ten-year-old son and a successful architect husband. For Seo-hyun, life is a series of banal routines, but she is well provided with upper class comforts. Her sheltered life is suddenly threatened with the appearance of U-in, her much younger sister's attractive new fiancé. U-in approaches Seo-hyun and attraction evolves into a passionate affair. Seo-hyun is aware that falling for the younger man will destroy her and her family, but she cannot help herself and the new feelings that are stirring within...