
The Way Home
The Way Home is a 2002 film written and directed by Lee Jeong-hyang. It tells the heart-warming story about a grandmother and her city-born grandson who comes to live with her in a rural village. The film, which reminds the younger generation of the unconditional love and care that old people selflessly give, won South Korea's equivalent of the Oscars for best picture and screenplay. It was the second-highest grossing homegrown film in South Korea in 2002. It was released on DVD and VHS, with English subtitles, in 2003 by Paramount Classics.
Plot
The story begins on a fine summer's morning, when Sang-woo (Yoo Seung-ho) and his mother board a bus to the country. It is soon clear that the unsophisticated rural passengers annoy the seven-year-old urban boy. His mother is taking him to live with his 78-year-old mute, but not deaf, grandmother (Kim Eul-boon) while she looks for a new job after a business venture failed in Seoul. Eventually they reach their destination, a dusty bus stop in the Korean countryside near an unsophisticated village.
Cast
More details
author | Lee Jeong-hyang |
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contentLocation | Seoul |
director | Lee Jeong-hyang |
editor | Kim Sang-bum |
genre | drama |
keywords | around the world boiled chicken bus stop choco pie dedicate end fried chicken game boy greeting cards humble humility junk food kentucky fried chicken meet morning new job old friends osteoporosis river run samgyetang unconditional love young girl |
musicBy | Kim Dae-heung Kim Yang-hee |
producer | Hwang Jae-woo Hwang Woo-hyun |
productionCompany | Paramount Classics |
publisher | CJ Entertainment Paramount Pictures |
theme | south korean |