''Gyeongju'' () is a 2014 South Korean
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and Romance novel, romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Ro ...
film written and directed by
Zhang Lu, starring
Park Hae-il and
Shin Min-ah.
Plot
Choi Hyeon visits Korea to pay his respects to his recently deceased friend, Kim Chang-hee. He sees his other friend Kang. Hyeon is a history professor in China, but people often mistake him for a weirdo. When people try to connect with him, he snubs them, but maintains an outwardly close relation. After paying his respects, he roams around Gyeongju, capital of the Silla Kingdom, now famous for tombs and
tumuli
A tumulus (: tumuli) is a mound of Soil, earth and Rock (geology), stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, mounds, howes, or in Siberia and Central Asia as ''kurgans'', and may be found through ...
. He visits a teahouse that he, Kim, and Kang had visited seven years earlier. Hyeon gets curious about an erotic piece of art that had been displayed there and has since vanished, and shows an interest in the current owner of the teahouse, Gong Yun-hee. They start to spend the day together. She invites him to her bed, but he is preoccupied with his thoughts and the picture. He leaves in the morning, knowing that some people whom he saw yesterday have died. He wanders more. The next morning at the teahouse, Gong Yun-hee is curious about the erotic art which she has covered with wallpaper. A flashback follows in which Hyeon and his friends seated at the teahouse table comment on the erotic painting, which displays the words "Lets have a drink and then each other". Kim Chang-hee's widow appears to have been the previous owner of the teahouse.
Cast
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Park Hae-il as Choi Hyeon
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Shin Min-a as Gong Yoon-hee
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Yoon Jin-seo
Yoon Jin-seo (; born August 5, 1983), birth name Yoon Soo-kyung, is a South Korean actress. She rose to prominence for her performance as Lee Soo-ah in the 2003 thriller film ''Oldboy (2003 film), Oldboy'' which earned her the Baeksang Arts Awa ...
as Yeo-jeong
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Kim Tae-hoon as Detective Lee Young-min
*Kwak Ja-hyeong as Lee Choon-won
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Shin So-yul as Da-yeon
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Baek Hyun-jin as Professor Park
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Ryoo Seung-wan
Ryoo Seung-wan (; born December 15, 1973) is a South Korean filmmaker. He made his debut in 1996 with the short film ''Dangerous Head'', then worked as a director under director Park Chan-wook, took film lessons, and made his feature film debut ...
as Teacher Kang
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Lee Na-ra as Kim Chang-hee's wife
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Jeong In-seon as young receptionist
*Lee Hyeon-jeong as mother
*Kim Soo-ahn as little kid
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Kim Hak-sun as Kim Chang-hee
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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{{Zhang Lu
South Korean romantic comedy-drama films
2014 films
Films directed by Zhang Lü
2014 romantic comedy-drama films
2010s South Korean films