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Movie: A Night on the Water
Revised Romanization: Mulwoui Harutbam
Hangul: 물위의 하룻밤
Director: Jung Soo Kang
Writer: Jung Soo Kang
Producer: Eun Soo Lee
Cinematographer: Ok-Hyun Shin
Release Date: May 30, 1998
Runtime : 118 min
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean

Plot

After graduating from college, Sung-Ha enters a Canadian investment company and develops into a talented businessman. However, after a single mistake, he receives his discharge notice. In desolation, he spends his days drinking and gambling. Then Sung-Ha falls in love with a woman called Phoebe, whom he meets accidentally in the subway station, and who reminds him of his abused mother. Phoebe is a street walker with incurable pains, who was sexually abused by her stepfather. For her, tequila, sex, and drugs are the only means by which to end her pain and support herself. She meets a warm-hearted, ever-loving man who gives her the courage to live on. These are two people trying to ease their pains, a happy couple... However, Phoebe is not free from the memories of her past, and is afraid that her happiness might not last...

Notes

Film was shot on location in Vancouver, Canada.

Cast

Sung Hi Lee - Phoebe
Ji-Ha Yu - Sung-Ha
Judy Thompson - Stella
Hee-jeong Yun (윤희정) - Aunt

A Night On The Water 1998