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Heo-wook and Ji-youn are a young couple, desperately poor, who can meet only on Sundays. Without any money to go to a cafe, they wander the windswept streets and parks of Seoul. Their future is bleak and their relationship appears strained. And they face a crisis: Ji-youn is pregnant. Unable to support a child, she tells Heo-wook that she wants an abortion. Forgotten in storage for 37 years after censors refused to allow its release, A Day Off was belatedly recognized as one of the decade’s masterpieces. Clearly influenced by European auteurs such as Antonioni and Resnais, Lee Man-hee’s spare, lyrical images express everything that the film’s physically and spiritually exhausted heroes struggle to put into words. Poetic and rich, A Day Off is, for all its bitter pessimism, a kind of love letter to the expressive potential of cinema.
Original Release
01/01/1968
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jeon Ji-yeon | Ji Yeon |
Sun-cheol Kim | Gyu-Je |
Jan-il Shin | Ji-yeon's Father |
Ki Bum Kim | Deputy Head of Department |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jeon Ji-yeon | Ji Yeon |
Sun-cheol Kim | Gyu-Je |
Jan-il Shin | Ji-yeon's Father |
Ki Bum Kim | Deputy Head of Department |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jeon Ok-Suk | Executive Producer |
Jeon Ok-Suk | Producer |