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South Korean Master Hong Sangsoo’s 21st feature as director, The Day After, is a mordantly comic tale of infidelity and mistaken identity. Book publisher Bongwan’s (Kwon Haehyo) marriage is on the rocks after his wife (Cho Yunhee) discovers the affair he’s been having with his assistant (Kim Saebyuk). Now that relationship is ending too and Bongwan’s new assistant, the sharp and sensitive Areum (Kim Minhee), on her first day in the office, is left to navigate the fallout of all the turnover in Bongwan’s life.
With its ingeniously destabilizing leaps through time and stark black and white cinematography, The Day After begins as a darkly hilarious story of a man embroiled in extramarital entanglements but soon shifts—in a way only Hong can manage—into a heartfelt portrayal of a young woman on a quest for spiritual fulfillment.
Original Release
06/07/2017
US Release
02/19/2019
Cast
Name | Character |
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Yunhee Cho | Song Haejoo |
Kwon Hae-hyo | Kim Bongwan / Kim Bong-wan |
Ki Joabang | |
Taeu Kang | Chinese restaurant delivery man |
Kim Min-hee | Song Areum / Song Ah-reum |
Kim Sae-byeok | Lee Changsook |
Gi Ju-bong | |
Taewoo Kang | Chinese Restaurant Delivery Man |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Yunhee Cho | Song Haejoo |
Kwon Hae-hyo | Kim Bongwan / Kim Bong-wan |
Ki Joabang | |
Taeu Kang | Chinese restaurant delivery man |
Kim Min-hee | Song Areum / Song Ah-reum |
Kim Sae-byeok | Lee Changsook |
Gi Ju-bong | |
Taewoo Kang | Chinese Restaurant Delivery Man |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Taeu Kang | Executive Producer |
Hong Sang-soo | Producer |