Underplayed Gems

My Dear Desperado (2010)

My Dear Desperado poster
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
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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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