My Dear Desperado (2010)

Original title

내 깡패 같은 애인

Directed by

Kim Gwang-sik

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

15

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A jobless woman and a clumsy gangster become neighbors in a semi-basement apartment. They start as strangers but slowly grow closer as they deal with their own messy lives.

lightheartedplayfulquirkygentlebittersweetironicunderstatedwarm

What happens

My Dear Desperado (Korean: 내 깡패 같은 애인; RR: Nae kkangpae gateun aein; lit. 'My Gangster-like Lover') is a 2010 South Korean romantic comedy film written and directed by Kim Kwang-sik, and starring Park Joong-hoon and Jung Yu-mi as two people who become semi-basement one-room neighbors: brave yet jobless Se-jin and Dong-chul, the neighborhood gangster who always gets beaten up. The film received 688,832 admissions nationwide. This film was remade in India in Hindi titled Jayantabhai Ki Luv Story in 2013 and in Tamil by Nalan Kumarasamy titled Kadhalum Kadandhu Pogum (2016) for which ₹40 lakh (US$42,000) or ₩71,587,640.57 was paid as copyrights. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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