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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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)
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